Summary: <p>Listen to episode 116 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Science of Being Great. Adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles.</p><br> <p><strong>New Thought Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>There is no possibility in any person that is not in every individual; but if they proceed naturally, no two people will grow into the same thing, or be alike. Every person comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier along those lines than in any other way. This is a wise provision, for it gives endless variety. It is as if a gardener should throw all their bulbs into one basket; to the superficial observer they would look alike, but growth reveals a tremendous difference.</em></p><br> <p><em>So of men and women, they are like a basket of bulbs. One may be a rose and add brightness and color to some dark corner of the world; one may be a lily and teach a lesson of love and purity to every eye that sees; one may be a climbing vine and hide the rugged outlines of some dark rock; one may be a great oak among whose boughs the birds shall nest and sing, and beneath whose shade the flocks shall rest at noon, but everyone will be something worthwhile, something rare, something perfect.</em></p><br> <p><em>There are undreamed of possibilities in the common lives all around us in a large sense; there are no “common” people. In times of national stress and peril the slack-dressed loafer at the corner store and the town drunkard become heroes and statesmen through the quickening of the Principle of Power within them. There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related New Thought Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="As a Man Thinketh" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/how-to-be-successful-in-life/">How to Be Successful in Life</a></p><br> <p><a title="Wild Love" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/seeing-god-in-nature-wild-love/">Seeing God in Nature</a></p>
