Inspiring words from Oprah Winfrey
in this world there are a lot of things
that are beyond our control but what you
do have control over is how you react to
whatever happens in your life what I now
know is that we all become exactly what
you believe so if you believe that you
can do all things because you have been
endowed by a power from on high given to
you by the grace of God you believe that
you walk into the world understanding
that whatever problems you may encounter
you still have God to lead on as I grew
my perception and understanding of what
God means grew with me I expanded my
view of what it means to be a citizen of
the universe to be a part of the energy
field that is omnipotent omniscient
all-knowing and all present in all
things and so my confidence comes from
knowing that there is something greater
than myself
that I am a part of and is also a part
of me I call that God but I do nothing
without that understanding how I think
one masters one’s life is to understand
that you are co-creating that life with
the ultimate creator not understanding
that put you at your own pitiful meager
little will and everything is left up to
you and you can’t do it you cannot
survive in this world by yourself just
believing in yourself you’re not big
enough to do it
I’m not big enough to do it nobody’s big
enough to do it you have to understand
that your very presence here as a human
being on earth came from something
greater than you and not just your
parents who wanted to have a child the
fact that that egg was hit by that
particular little sperm in that
particular moment and you were created
Wow how amazing is that of all the
different choices that had to happen in
order for you to be here now what a
celebration that is
so when you recognize the mystery of
that creation all the circumstances that
had to configure and reconfigure
themselves all the questions that we
don’t have answers to you have to know
this the fact that I’m here matters the
fact that you’re there
matters this is no accident none of us
are when you do well people notice when
you do your best people notice and so
wherever you are always do your best and
doing your best put you at the next
level nothing about my life is lucky
nothing
a lot of grace a lot of blessings a lot
of divine order but I don’t believe in
luck for me luck is preparation meeting
the moment of opportunity there is no
luck without you being prepared to
handle that moment of opportunity and so
what I would say for myself is is that
because of my hand in a hand and a force
greater than my own I have been prepared
in ways that I didn’t even know I was
being prepared for and the truth is for
me and for every person every single
thing that has ever happened in your
life is preparing you for the moment
that is to come a lot of people don’t
know their purpose and if you don’t know
your purpose your immediate goal is to
figure that out because otherwise you
just wandering around here so the moment
you can figure out what it is you’re
supposed to be doing
the sooner you are able to get about the
business of doing that the universe
speaks to us always first in whispers
and a whisper usually in your life feels
like hmm that’s odd or huh that doesn’t
make any sense
or hmm is that right it just really
feels like that it’s that it’s that kind
of subtle and if you don’t pay attention
to the whisper it gets louder and louder
and louder and I say it’s like getting
bumped upside the head you don’t pay
attention to that
it’s like getting a brick upside your
head you don’t pay attention to that the
brick wall falls down
life is about growth and change when you
are no longer doing that that is your
whisper that is your whisper that I am
supposed to do something else I am
interested in seeing what the rest of
the world has to offer me any body
pretending to be anything other than who
you really are you will never ever reach
your personal potential you cannot do it
I have known for a very long time that I
am a blessed person and that to whom
much is given much is also required that
you can’t have all of this and not use
it for something that is for the greater
good your intention rules your life and
determines the outcome every time it
would happen I would say to my team well
doesn’t matter cuz every season somebody
else was coming out one talk show two to
talk shows three structures there have
been over a hundred talk shows since we
started but every time I would feel like
alright got to step up our game got to
step up our game the way you step up
your game is not to worry about the
other guy in any situation cuz you can’t
control the other guy you cannot control
the other guy you only have control over
yourself so it’s like running a race the
energy that it takes to look back and
see where the other guys are takes
energy away from you and if they’re too
close it scares you so that’s what I
would say to my team all the time don’t
waste your time in the race looking back
to see where the other guy is or what
the other guy is doing it’s not about
the other guy it’s about what can you do
you just need to run that race as hard
as you can you need to give it
everything you’ve got all the time for
yourself for yourself
what I know is you got to take
responsibility for the space you hold
here and understand that the third law
of motion which says for every action
there’s an equal and opposite reaction
that is my religion that is the
fundamental construct of my religion and
by that I mean I know that every thought
that I think every thought that I have
that moves into action is going to
create an opposite and equal reaction so
everything that I put out into the world
is going to come back it’s the Golden
Rule on steroids
the golden rule on steroids it’s true
that as you do unto others they will do
unto you
mm-hmm it’s already done there’s an
energy field there’s an energy flow that
I strongly feel in my own life and I
know lots of other people who do
you’re either in flow
or out of it and if you’re in flow it’s
like this it’s like this all the time
it’s like this it’s like flowing with
the stream and the flow is in direct
proportion to the center of yourself
where God abides our universal energy
abides where the divine within you
abides how far you are from the center
from the divine Ness of yourself from
your connection to source energy that
which created you is how out of sync you
are with your life regardless of what
you call it
when you can align with that nobody can
touch you
Gary Zhukov calls that authentic power
in his books either the soul he says
when your personality comes to serve the
energy of your soul that is authentic
power that’s the only real power there
is cuz you don’t lose everything else oh
how beautiful you are one day your
breasts are gonna sag and your eyes are
gonna bag and you’re not gonna be as
beautiful and it doesn’t matter how much
Botox and how many times you get
yourself pulled up and how many the
hairdos and how many makeovers or what
you do you know that doesn’t last it’s
just like the most beautiful flowering
tree
everything passes and it’s time it
doesn’t matter how much money you have
how much power you have how high you sit
on the Forbes list how many times you
make the most influential lists all that
changes all of that changes but what is
real what is lasting is who you are and
what you were meant to bring what is the
gift you were meant to give and nobody
can take that away from you
