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The Source of Growth & Happiness · Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living Podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's talk was edited and adapted from Love's Away by Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1918.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's medicine is work that we love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's plan for our development, our growth in mental and physical power and resourcefulness is work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is the desire to attain the struggle to realize our dreams, that unfolds our powers, calls out our reserves, forms our character.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It makes the woman in man, and there is no other way than through this evolutionary process that this great and can be accomplished.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Growth and happiness are found only in work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yet how most of us grumble at having to work so hard for everything we get.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who is not sometimes asked themselves the question, why couldn't God make everything available to use for free without the need for labor in toil, so that we could spend our time in the development of our intellects.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in self-culture, in travel, in pleasure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How little do the majority of us realize that everything that is desirable is so only because of its cost in effort.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Supposing the Creator had provided everything full grown, ready made for our use.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that every human being had been college educated when born.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Supposing every wish could be gratified without any effort on our part.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who would want to live in such a backboneless, jellyfish world?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There was no stamina, no initiative, no grit, no resolution.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: no incentive to activity, and consequently no stalwart manhood, no strong sweet womanhood, because you know that all these things would be impossible without the constant struggle to attain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who would care to live in a world of satisfied desires, with no motive for climbing?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is not God's way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The creator planned a life of glorious achievement in self-development for us all, through work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Work or starve is written all over the universe, on the soil and the starry heavens.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Seaseless activity characterizes all life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every substitution that has ever been tried for work, for personal effort, has been a failure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The men and women who have tried to get the good things out of life, without paying for them, without giving any equivalent work, have already been heard from.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We all know them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are characterless, selfish, indolent, greedy, overbearing, undeveloped.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They never know what to do with themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They suffer from more on we in satiety than they would ever suffer from the hardest work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are always hunting for happiness, but never finding it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because they don't earn it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We get the worthwhile things in life only through personal effort, the chief ingredients of happiness are the right spirit, and hold some work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have the right spirit when we are in harmony with our environment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when we add to this harmony a fine day's work, we feel a sense of great satisfaction.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because we are using the human machine in a normal way, in the way it was intended to be used.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have been exercising it to the best of our ability, bringing in to play our highest faculties and contributing our share to the world as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you have found your niche, if you are doing the things you were made to do, you shall find no weather happiness,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: quite equal to that which you get out of your day's work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have really known of any one to break down in doing work they love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we were all in our right places, doing the thing nature planned us to do, our work would be almost like play.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Where the heart is, there is no friction or discord.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are what exhaust the vitality and waste the brain power.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you love your work, it will not complete your strength because it will not be a grind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On the contrary, it will be a pleasure, a perpetual stimulus.