Where Do We Come From | Our Sunday Talks

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from On Life’s Threshold by Charles Wagner, published in 1905.

Podcast Excerpt: We enter into life without having an awareness that we are alive — as do the trees, the flowers, and the bees, which all possess life, but not the realization of it. An infant does not know that he or she exists. They are, as it were, unconscious. It never occurs to them to ask whence they came. But the time arrives when the child perceives that they are here and that they are somebody. An irresistible instinct compels them to reflect on themselves and on the world around them.

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1:15.1	slash inspirational. Welcome to Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast.
1:39.8	Today's talk was edited and adapted from On Life's Threshold by Charles Wagner, published in 1905.
2:00.0	We enter into life without having an awareness that we are alive, as do the trees, the flowers and the bees, which all possess life, but not the realization of it.
2:15.4	An infant does not know that he or she exists. They are, as it were, unconscious.
2:22.3	It never occurs to them to ask whence they came, but the time arrives when the child perceives
2:29.3	that they are here, and that they are somebody. An irresistible instinct compels them to reflect
2:38.0	on themselves and the world around them. The same question is forever rising anew in the young
2:47.0	mind, without having made any effort to get there.
2:51.4	Where do all these things come from?
2:54.8	And this simple question takes us a long way.
2:58.7	It is like the song of the cuckoo bird, which you hear in the woods in springtime.
3:05.4	You do not know where it comes from. It attracts you. It perplexes you. You follow it,
3:12.5	but it retreats. Until maybe in order to set eyes on the mysterious singer, who is always
3:19.2	fleeing and escaping you, you go into the very depth of the forest, discovering unknown paths, curiously
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