Oprah: There's a bigger dream waiting for you, just waiting for you to step into it.
Oprah: Everything you try to do is already done. So when I figured that out “oh what
I’m putting out is what's coming back”. Let me get real clear about what it is I’m putting out.
Real clear. So I read a book about 1989 called Seed of the soul and in that book,
Gary Zhukov talked about the laws of karma, of the laws of cause and effect the third law of motion,
and in that book he talked about how intention, your intention, is always one
with the law. Meaning before you even think about a thing you have an intention for the thing and
that the intention is going to determine the outcome. That's why the same people can go to
the same church service and somebody walked down the aisle just to be seen to put some money in the
church and somebody else who just goes and just has a little bit to offer
the intention with which you give, the intention with which you serve determines the outcome.
So when I figured that out I went “whoa”. I changed everything I did on my show. I
called in the producers and I said from this day forward I will no longer be speaking to the KKK.
I will no longer be speaking to people who are fighting each other in a way
that it is damaging to the character of myself and other people who watch.
Your intention changes the world!
Your intention changes your life!
What will you put out into the world today?
Will you complain about your life and seek revenge for your troubles?
Or will you bring WISDOM and JOY to the world?
Become the BRIGHTEST light in the room.
What you GIVE comes back to YOU.
REMEMBER this.
The outcome of your desires depends solely on YOU.
Oprah: I always understood that there really was no difference between me in the audience.
At times I might have had better shoes, but at the core, the core of what really matters,
that we are the same. You know how I know that? Because all of us are seeking the same thing.
You're here at this fabulous school and we'll go out into the world and each pursue based
upon what you believe your talents are, what your skills are, maybe your gifts are,
but you're seeking the same thing. Everybody wants to fulfill the highest truest expression
of yourself as a human being. That's what you're looking for. The highest
truest expression of yourself as a human being. And because I understand that, I understand that
if you're working in a bakery and that's where you want to be and that may be what you've
always wanted to do is to bake pies for people or bake cakes for people or to offer your gift
then that's for you and there's no difference between you and me except that's how, that's
your platform. That's your show every day. So my understanding of that has allowed me to have a
line to reach everyone and there's no way that you wouldn't because that's what I truly feel.
There is a BIGGER DREAM waiting for you!
But you got to have the courage to step into it.
Have the courage to embark on the journey to FIND YOURSELF.
Discover NEW THINGS.
Find YOUR PASSION.
Find the HIGHEST TRUEST EXPRESSION OF YOURSELF as a human being.
And never let it go!
Because this is your STAGE!
It is what your HEART always wanted!
THIS is your PURPOSE!
Oprah: The way through the challenge
is to get still and ask yourself what is the next right move? Not think about “oh, I got all of this
to do”. What is the next right move and then from that space make the next right move and the next
right move and not to be overwhelmed by it because you know your life is bigger
than that one moment. You know you're not defined by what somebody says is
a failure for you because failure is just there to point you in a different direction.
Oprah: If I leave you with nothing else it's, just know this for sure
there is not one thing that has ever happened to you.
Oprah: I've learned to appreciate living in the moment and I ask that you do - I've asked,
I'm asking this graduating class, those of you here, I've asked all of my viewers
in America and across the world to do this one thing keep a grateful journal.
Every night list five things that happened this day, in days to come that you are grateful
for. What it will begin to do is to change your perspective of your day and your life. I believe
that if you can learn to focus on what you have you will always see that the universe is abundant
and you will have more. If you concentrate and focus in your life on what you don't have
we'll never have enough. Be grateful, keep a journal, you all are all over my journal tonight.
Step by step coats climb huge vertical mountains.
And step by step YOU can get all you want!
Nothing is by chance.
Out of the billions of people that could have been born, YOU are here.
Alive.
This is NO coincidence!
You are here to CONQUER every CHALLENGE!
LEARN from each failure!
GRAB every opportunity!
And THRIVE!
Oprah: And to think that something as random as my mother's poodle skirt and my father walking
out the door at the time. She'd had her eye on him for a while, so she was working it.
To think that something as random as that would create a little Negro child in Mississippi
who grew up and had, and has had, and continues to have the opportunities that I've had.
I can assure that is nothing but grace. It's grace.
It's grace because I was allowed to step into the flow of it and let it carry me to this moment.
And I'm not telling you what to believe or who to believe or what to call it, but there is no full
life, no fulfilled, meaningful, sustainably joyful life without a connection to the spirit.
Oprah: First and foremost knowing who you are. Knowing who you are. Being able to answer
this question. Who am I and what do I want? Oprah: Who am I really. My answer is I am God's
child. I am that which is born of all that is.
Oprah: So what I learned is that oh, the reason why people keep showing up is because
my intention is to make them think that I'm such a nice person that you can ask me for anything.
You can get me to do anything. I'm going to say yes, I'm going to say yes. So when
Stevie called me this time I thought I'd try out my first no on Stevie. Let's start big.
He wanted me to donate some money to a charity, and I didn't want to donate to the charity,
because I have my own charities and I care about a lot of people. But the problem is when
you have money everybody thinks you just want to give to everything. So every letter
I ever get starts with, we know you love the children.
Yes, I do love the children, but somebody else is going to have to help the children.
So I said to Stevie, I said to Stevie no.
And as a person who has that disease to please I was waiting for him then to say,
I will never speak to you again. I will never call you. I will never sing a song for you.
And he didn't, he just said OK. OK? OK? It's OK? He said, OK, check you later.
And what I learned from that is, many times you will
have angst and worry about things and put yourself in a state, like someone said
this morning because her phone went off they were mortified. Over a phone, I said? Really?
You will put yourself in a state when the other person really isn't even thinking about you.
So learning that I could specifically determine for myself what the boundaries were for me,
what I wanted to do, give my money, give my time, give of my service, to who I wanted
to give it to when I did, that I get to make that decision. And just because
you get 100 requests a week doesn't mean you have to try to fulfill all of that.
No one can take away your choice.
YOU are the master of your fate. YOU are the captain of your soul!
Take responsibility for your destiny!
Go after your dreams!
And change your life, now!
NOTES:
1- Maybe with more urgency on the narration,
people will stay more alert. Perhaps trying to match Oprah’s energy and tone on the first
quote, since it is the top moment of the video,
is a good idea. Of course, with the necessary changes when needed.
2- I found the source quotes, without any music or editing. So the editors
are free to use the images they want, as well as music and sound effects. I liked
the sound effects on the original video, maybe that can be more explored in the new
version. I’ve heard that abrupt changes in the video help keep the attention.
These are just suggestions. I welcome them to my work as well :)
Keep up the good work, team!