The World as Looking Glass | Thought-Provoking Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Listen to episode 1020 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World as Looking Glass. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is full of looking-glasses in which we behold our own reflection. Any given mirror may be cracked or otherwise defective (so that the image fails to do us justice), but, more or less, the thing reflected is the thing that is.
The material world abounds in such mirrors....
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| 1:42.1 | Welcome to the inspirationalirational Living Podcast. |
| 1:46.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and other essays by Joseph Frank Thompson, published in 1911. |
| 2:09.6 | The world is full of looking glasses in which we behold our own reflection. Any given mirror may be cracked or otherwise defective, so that the image fails to do us justice, but more or less the thing reflected is the thing that is. |
| 2:24.3 | The material world abounds in such mirrors. |
| 2:28.3 | The summer rain is one thing to the farmer, whose heart glows with satisfaction at the thought of the crops |
| 2:36.1 | that are being nourished, and quite another to the farmer's children, who grumble their |
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