Timeless Wisdom to Meditate Upon

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Listen to episode 1039 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Wisdom to Meditate Upon. Edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You want to know you can get the most out of life? How you can keep from having that sense of dissatisfaction when going to bed at night? How you can have, instead, that feeling of contentment, that the past twenty-four hours were worthwhile? Well, this hint may help: The Secret of Permanent Pleasure Lies in Cultivating Ever Higher Forms of Pleasure...

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1:24.6	Welcome in the inspirational living podcast.
1:30.2	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane, published in 1916.
1:39.3	Leonardo's Mona Lisa was stolen by an Italian thief in 1911, and when she finally got back to her place upon the walls of the Louvre two years later, all the world came to see her.
1:55.9	On the first day of her homecoming, some 20,000 visitors trooped by to have a look at the most famous
2:04.1	of paintings. And there, with those placid hands upon her lap, she sat in her frame, regarding
2:14.3	the passers-by with her amused and superior smile, very much as you would look upon
2:21.8	the antics of your pet kitten.
2:25.5	Why worry, she seemed to say.
2:28.8	Here I am as you see.
2:31.6	I came back, of course, since it is written. It was destiny. All of us but follow our program.
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