The Unseen Elements of Success & Greatness
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Listen to episode 760 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Unseen Elements of Success & Greatness. Edited and adapted from Levels of Living by Henry Frederick Cope.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is an old mystical saying that the things which are not seen are essential to all success. We are blind if we can see only with our eyes, and we only are sensible when we know that there are many things beyond our senses. Practical people consider all the factors to every problem, and things are not less real to them because they might be intangible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. If you enjoy our podcast, you can help us out by leaving a positive review at the iTunes store. |
| 0:21.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.2 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Levels of Living, |
| 0:28.5 | essays on Everyday Ideals by Henry Frederick Cope, published in 1908. |
| 0:39.0 | There is an old mystical saying that the things which are not seen are essential to all success. |
| 0:48.2 | We are blind if we can see only with our eyes, |
| 0:52.6 | and we only are sensible when we know that there are many things beyond our |
| 0:57.1 | senses. Practical people consider all the factors to every problem, and things are not less real to |
| 1:05.6 | them because they might be intangible. The unseen things are imminent to us always. |
| 1:13.9 | There are many things not yet pigeonholed by our science, |
| 1:18.3 | nor catalogued by our philosophies. |
| 1:21.8 | You can dissect a daisy and enumerate its parts, |
| 1:25.6 | but you never know a daisy until you have seen the unseen things thereof, |
| 1:31.6 | until you have felt the subtle appeal of its beauty. |
| 1:36.0 | The danger is that in our hard work-day lives, we shall forget the reality of the unseen. |
| 1:43.7 | We shall get to thinking that gold, steel, land, and money are the only real things. |
| 1:51.5 | How easy it is to measure everyone by their possessions of tangible things. |
| 1:58.1 | How easy to make these archie fend in life, to slight the real prizes, the unseen |
| 2:05.2 | wealth that lies so close at hand, or already possessed, while we rush and strive for the rainbow |
| 2:13.5 | of riches. Deep within us we know that we alone are rich, when we have wisdom, love and patience, |
| 2:23.3 | when we possess friends, create kindly thoughts, and live a life where simple joys abound. |
| 2:31.3 | A person is wealthy according to what is within them. Their greatness is of the things |
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