The Secret of Living in Abundance
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 737 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Living in Abundance. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who gives much of themselves will be abundantly enriched because they place in life a large measure of themselves to be filled. The one who gives things may lose all that is given. But the one who gives of themselves (the best that is in themselves) loses nothing. Instead they gain a larger and a richer self.
To have an abundance of life is to have the power to help yourself and to re-create your own world according to your highest desires. The gift of life is therefore the highest gift. It is also the largest gift because it includes all gifts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
| 0:06.0 | businesses like Magic Spoon and Mattel, who sell through the roof, you probably attribute |
| 0:12.2 | their success to great products and a strong brand. But an often overlooked secret is actually |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.5 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian |
| 1:42.2 | Neil Larson, published in 1912. |
| 1:50.5 | The person who gives much receives much. This we all know, but the question is what it means to give. When we speak of giving, we usually think |
| 2:05.4 | of charity and poverty. In believing that the latter is inevitable, we conclude that the former |
| 2:13.3 | must be an exalted virtue. But poverty is not inevitable. It is not a part of life's plan. |
| 2:22.6 | It is simply a mistake. Therefore charity cannot be otherwise than a temporary remedy. And such remedies, |
| 2:32.2 | though good and necessary, do not always constitute virtues, because virtue is permanent and part of continuous advancement in the individual. |
| 2:45.8 | The person who gives in charity does not receive anything in return, unless they also give of themselves. |
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