Life! Life! Life! As I just write this, in drops in my heart that I need to read the Purpose Driven Life again by Rick Warren.
I really enjoyed reading the interview and it made me reflect on a lot of things in life. I hope it does the same for you!
One of my favorite parts of “The Oprah
Winfrey Show” came after the cameras stopped rolling.
I would spend time with the studio audience
in Chicago and open up an ongoing Q and A. Inevitably, the conversation would
move toward honest and sincere talk about their lives. In almost every session
I’d ask: "What do you want?"
It’s a deceivingly simple question — and
one I’ve found most people can’t answer. Yet it’s profoundly important. What do
you really want in your life? And where are you on the path towards what you
really want?
What I’ve come to know is that so much of
our lives is controlled by our intentions and our beliefs. It matters what I
believe, and what you believe, and what we as a community come together and
believes. Our intentions become thoughts … our thoughts become beliefs … our
beliefs become words and actions. From inception, our intentions and beliefs
carry power; what we believe is often what shows up for us.
When I realized the incredible power of
manifesting
One day I was at my farm in Indiana. It was a rainy day and I was thinking,
"Gee, I sure would like some tomato soup." Soon after, the caretaker
who lived across the street came in with a pot of tomato soup. I asked her:
“What made you do that?" She said: "Well, honey, I had these
tomatoes. So I thought maybe you'd like some tomato soup.” So I was like, Wow,
if you can get tomato soup like that, what else is possible? What else can I
manifest? So I started trying it with other things. I have seen it happen over
and over and over again. You control a lot by your thoughts.
The conversation that taught me about life
in the simplest and most powerful way
I did an interview in the late '80s with a
mother who had watched her son die. She
crawled into bed with him as he was dying. And his last words were, "Oh,
it was all so simple." And then he smiled. When she said that, I got chills.
We're going to take our last breath and say, "Why were we struggling all
that time? Why were we swimming
upstream? Where all we had to do was just look at each other and accept each
other for who each of us represents on the planet.” I thought back to that
quote. Ah, it was so simple. I didn't have to fight that hard. It didn't have
to be that hard. That show, along with many others, had a powerful and calming
impact on me in terms of the way I led my own life.
Why we all ultimately want the same thing
In speaking to the audience after my show, I
kept hearing people stand up and say, "You know, I did the thing I was
supposed to do. I went to school. I got the degree. I even got my master's. I
did the work. And now what? I feel like that there should be something more.”
And so that became one of the tenets of our show. How do you give and help to
fulfill that something more that people are looking for?
Really inspiring if you ask me, check it out on (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/simple-life-changing-question-hardly-anyone-can-answer-oprah-winfrey)
Have a fabulous week guys
xoxo
Elly
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