Summary: <p>Listen to episode 129 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Life. Adapted from work by Elbert Hubbard that appears in The American Bible by Alice Hubbard.</p><br> <p><strong>Inspirational Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>Be a creator, not merely a creature and a consumer. Nature is the best guide of which we know, and the love of simple pleasures is next, if not superior, to religion. A wise person does not need advice, and a fool will not take it. We flatter only those we fear — the highest applause is silence. </em></p><br> <p><em>We are brothers and sisters to all who have trod the earth. We want to do what is best for ourselves, and we have discovered that what is best for ourselves is best for others. No one is damned eternally as long as they try. Inaction is only a gathering together of forces for the coming leap: the fallow years are just as natural, just as necessary, as the years of plenty. To know the worst is peace — it is uncertainty that kills. </em></p><br> <p><em>The secret, which I am about to tell you, is the most valuable and far-reaching of any known to human kind. It is the key to health, happiness, wealth, power, success. It is the open sesame to Paradise, here and now. A secret is something known only to a few. But often the best way to retain a secret is to let others help you to keep it. Just as the only way to retain love is to give it away — art and religion the same. </em></p><br> <p><em>This secret, which I am about to impart, will cause no thrill, save in the hearts of those who already know it. And all I can do for you, anyway, is to tell you the things you know, but which possibly you do not know you know until I tell you....</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Success Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="Inspiration for Success" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/what-is-your-ambition/">What is Your Ambition?</a></p><br> <p><a title="Finding Motivation" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/the-key-to-success-depends-on-you/">The Key to Success Depends on You</a></p>
