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Episode 311: I Shall Not Live in Vain · Positively 365: Inspire, Motivate, Support

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Positively three hundred and sixty five, a podcast
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  Speaker 1: by Joe wattis we wish to entertain, instruct and motivate.
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  Speaker 1: If nothing else, hopefully we can entertain and inspire you
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  Speaker 1: to live a more positive life three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: We hope you enjoy this message.
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  Speaker 3: A man walks into a library, approaches the librarian and says,
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  Speaker 3: I'll have a cheeseburger, fries and a coke. The librarian
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  Speaker 3: looks at him confuse and says, sir, this is a library.
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  Speaker 3: The man looks at her again and very quietly whispers,
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  Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I'll have much burger, fries and a coke.
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  Speaker 3: In a world that often feels defined by what we
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  Speaker 3: can achieve, accumulate, or prove, it's easy to lose sight
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  Speaker 3: of what truly makes life meaningful. We get caught up
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  Speaker 3: in the noise of ambition and success, forgetting that sometimes
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  Speaker 3: the most important thing we can do is ease someone's
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  Speaker 3: pain or offer a hand to lift another. Today's episode
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  Speaker 3: is a reminder that the most profound purpose in life
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  Speaker 3: may not come from grand gestures, but from quiet acts
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  Speaker 3: of kindness and compassion that we offer to those around us.
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  Speaker 3: It is in these small moments when we stop to help,
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  Speaker 3: that we find the truest meaning our lives. This is
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  Speaker 3: the topic for this week on Positively three sixty five.
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  Speaker 3: But first we have our trivia question of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready for it? Here it is which religion
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  Speaker 3: is the oldest of the world's major monotheistic religions. We
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  Speaker 3: will have the answer when we come back.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know the answer to this week's trivia question?
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  Speaker 3: The question was which religion is the oldest of the
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  Speaker 3: world's major monotheistic religions. The answer Zoroastrianism. Founded by the
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  Speaker 3: prophet zoro Aster or Zarathustra. It dates back to around
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  Speaker 3: fifteen hundred BCE in Ancient Persia or modern day Iran,
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  Speaker 3: making it the oldest of the major monotheistic religions. It
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  Speaker 3: predates Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by centuries. The religion emphasizes
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  Speaker 3: the duality of good versus evil, where a supreme God
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  Speaker 3: or Hurrah Mazda representing all that is good, and the
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  Speaker 3: forces of evil, led by Angra Menu working against him. Zoroastrianism. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we spend so much of our lives chasing
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  Speaker 3: after things, titles, possessions, status, believing they will bring us fulfillment.
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  Speaker 3: But in the grand scheme of things, how much of
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  Speaker 3: it really matters. We might think success or recognition it
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  Speaker 3: is what gives us purpose, but the truth is it
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  Speaker 3: is the quiet, often unseen moments that shape us the most.
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  Speaker 3: Think about the times when someone has shown you kindness
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  Speaker 3: without expecting anything in return, or when you've offered to
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  Speaker 3: help someone else just because it was the right thing
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  Speaker 3: to do. These are the moments that leave lasting impressions,
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  Speaker 3: not because of what we gain from them, but because
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  Speaker 3: how they make us feel connected to something greater than ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: When we shift our focus from personal achievement to shared humanity,
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  Speaker 3: we begin to understand what the true value of our
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  Speaker 3: lives lies, not in what we do for ourselves, but
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  Speaker 3: in how we ease the burdens of others. It is
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  Speaker 3: in these simple lacts of compassion, no matter how small,
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  Speaker 3: that we find purpose. And with that in mind, I
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  Speaker 3: want to share something that beautifully captures this truth, the
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  Speaker 3: essence of living a life that isn't just about us,
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  Speaker 3: but about the impact we have on others. Listen to
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  Speaker 3: these amazing words from the poet Emily Dickinson. If I
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  Speaker 3: can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live
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  Speaker 3: in vain. If I can ease one life be aching
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  Speaker 3: or cool one pain or help one fainting robin unto
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  Speaker 3: its nest again. I shall not live in vain.
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