Summary: <p>Listen to episode 158 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Pain & Sorrow (The Nature of Evil). Edited & adapted from The Path to Prosperity by James Allen.</p><br> <p><strong>Spirituality Podcast Exceprt</strong>: <em>The child cries to be an adult; the adult sighs for the lost felicity of their childhood. The poor individual chafes under the chains of poverty by which they are bound, and the rich person often lives in fear of poverty, or scours the world in search of an elusive shadow called happiness. </em></p><br> <p><em>Sometimes the soul feels that it has found a secure peace and happiness in adopting a certain religion, in embracing an intellectual philosophy, or in building up an intellectual or artistic ideal; but some overpowering temptation proves the religion to be inadequate or insufficient; the theoretical philosophy is found to be a useless prop; or in a moment, the idealistic statue upon which the devotee has for years been laboring, is shattered into fragments at their feet. </em></p><br> <p><em>Is there, then, no way of escape from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity, and abiding peace a foolish dream? No, there is a way, and I speak it with gladness, by which evil can be slain forever; there is a process by which disease, poverty, or any adverse condition or circumstance can be overcome; there is a method by which a permanent prosperity can be secured, free from all fear of the return of adversity, and there is a practice by which unbroken and unending peace and bliss can be partaken of and realized. </em></p><br> <p><em>And the beginning of the way which leads to this glorious realization is the acquirement of a right understanding of the nature of evil.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Self-Help Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="The Power of Optimism" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/overcoming-adversity-with-optimism/">Overcoming Adversity with Optimism</a></p><br> <p><a title="How to Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/how-to-overcome-self-pity/">How to Overcome Self-Pity</a></p>
