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Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Reddinghouse Lion, published in 1866.

Life holds for everyone some different meaning. Out of its great storehouse of treasures,

every person endeavors to secure that which, for them, means happiness. Many people early give up

the struggle to acquire more than they find necessary for a mere existence,

and never penetrate far into the mysterious labyrinths of this wonderful storehouse.

Others waste their energies in accumulating a variety of tawdry trappings,

which in no way represent happiness, but whose glittering spectacle blinds them to the less glaring things of real worth.

Some have access to secret chambers, where power and riches wait for those who hold the key.

Some are beaten down and perish miserably in the senseless struggle to secure some coveted object that is not worth the effort.

Others die in an attempt to gain something of inestimable value,

but their efforts attract the attention of others to that which they were striving for,

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