Summary: <p>Listen to episode 194 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Sincerity & Authenticity: James Allen Life Lessons. Adapted from The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen.</p><br> <p><strong>Inspirational Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>Human society is held together by its sincerity. A universal falseness would beget a universal mistrust, which in turn would bring about a universal separation, if not destruction. Life is made sane, wholesome, and happy, by our deep rooted belief in one another. </em></p><br> <p><em>It is easy for the insincere to imagine that everybody is like themselves, and to speak of the “rottenness of society.” People who cannot see anything good in the constitution of human society, should overhaul themselves. Their trouble is near home. They call good, evil. They have dwelt cynically and peevishly on evil till they cannot see good, and everything and everybody appears evil. </em></p><br> <p><em>“Society is rotten from top to bottom”, I heard a man say recently; and he asked me if I did not think so too. I replied that I should be sorry to think so; that while society had many blemishes, it was sound at the core, and contained within itself the seeds of perfection. </em></p><br> <p><em>An individual of profound sincerity is a great moral force, and there is no force – not even the highest intellectual force – that can compare with it. Men and women are powerful in influence according to the soundness and perfection of their sincerity. Morality and sincerity are so closely bound up together, that where sincerity is lacking, morality (as a power) is lacking also — for insincerity undermines all the other virtues, so that they crumble away and become of no account.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Inspirational Podcasts</strong>:</p><br> <p><a title="Influence" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/influence-prejudice-the-art-of-thinking-clearly/">The Art of Clear Thinking</a></p><br> <p><a title="James Allen" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/the-eight-pillars-of-prosperity-energy-james-allen/">Energy: A Pillar of Prosperity</a></p>
