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there's a bigger dream

waiting for you just waiting for you

to step into it

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 zukov 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

from this day forward i am only going to

do

intentional television

so it is my intention my

intention to fulfill

the dream of the creator

it is my intention to live to the

highest

calling and be pressed to the mark of

the highest calling

that i have come to do and when you can

ask the creator ask that

which made you you what is your

dream for me i guarantee you

instead of you trying to define the

dream what is your

dream for me if you're able to lean

into the dream that

the universe and all the forces of of

of of light and love and power

and grace by all the names that we call

god has for you nobody can touch you

every single day i would have a pre-show

meeting

and have the producers come in and state

to me

what is your intention

how do we want to use whoever is on this

show

whatever is happening on this show to

serve the audience in a way that

fulfills the mission of uplifting

enlightening encouraging as well as

entertaining

and if it doesn't do that then i can't

do it

there's a bigger dream waiting for you

just waiting for you to step into it

to step into it your life is big

your life is huge and we spend so much

time

wanting to be in somebody else's life

and you don't get honored you don't get

revered you don't get

celebrating wanting what somebody else

has

because that which created you divine

intelligence to dreamed you

from before your ancestors ever

knew they would become your ancestors

that which dream the seed of you

wants you to know how special

how wondrous how mysterious how complex

how glorious how phenomenal you are

and you get no credit messing in

somebody else's territory

or trying to have power

over something you have no control

another one of my favorite teachings

is the wizard of oz when the wicked

which is the west says go away

from here because you don't have any

power here you have no power

in any territory other than your own

oh but you are the master of that

you get to be the master of your own

fate you get to be the captain of your

own soul and if you

just manage that if you just took care

of your

territory all the glorious glorious

glorious

wondrous wondrous opportunities

and possibilities that are waiting for

you so the question is

what are you resisting what are you

pushing against what are you not

allowing

what are you blocking because you have

this idea

of who and what you're supposed to be

instead of

leaning into the dream

that's already been created and waiting

for you it's waiting for you

and the second i mean it doesn't it's an

instant thing

it's a shift in the way you

see yourself and the power from which

you have come

i went through some tough times after

after i left the oprah show i made a

conscious decision

that when i felt i had said all that i

could say

and the audience had heard it that i

would move on

and that i would not spend my life

regretting or trying to hold on to what

used to be or hold on to what i had

so i dreamed this dream of starting a

network

and in the beginning it was it was a

struggle

it was a struggle because i didn't

honestly goodness i did not know what i

was doing

i was trying to figure it out i was

trying to figure it out

i thought that the oprah show audience

would follow us to own

then i realized y'all didn't have cable

and if you had cable you did not have

the own package

so so it took me a minute

and unlike most people who you get to

have your mistakes in private

some don't go right in your life you get

to soak about it in private

if i make a mistake it's on the cnn

crawl

or the cnn news so when i was in the

climb and there were so many wonderful

owners i see churro action jackson here

there were so many wonderful owners

people who said oh we're going to stand

with you we're going to stand by you

thank you roland martin

there were so many people who said

listen we believe that this can happen

so i dreamed the dream along with tyler

perry who was my friend who came to me

and said tyler

tyler said i'm going to help you out

because tyler can go home and write a

script and

direct it produce it and shoot it

and do it for less money than anybody in

hollywood so we started with the

foundation

of having have not

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if loving you is wrong

love thy neighbor mama hattie

and then i started to dream another

dream about

scripted television because in the

beginning i was told you couldn't do it

you couldn't do it didn't have enough

money to do it

and i dreamed the dream

i read proverbs 11 28 that says those

who trust in their riches will fall

but the righteous will rise and thrive

like a green leaf

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it was very difficult for me to figure

out where my boundaries were

because i'd grown up poor and didn't

have anything

so it's easy when you don't have

anything and people ask you for money

they say i need 500

you say i don't have it because i'm just

trying to get my rent paid

it's harder when your multi-billion

dollar salary is now in the paper and

you get a lot of friends and cousins you

didn't have before

so how do you set boundaries for

yourself i was having trouble setting

boundaries myself

for myself for even strangers people

would just show up at my door in chicago

and say oh bro i left my husband please

help me

and i would because she knows i have it

so what i learned was 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 gonna

say yes i'm gonna 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

the problem is when you 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 uh i said to stevie

no

and um as a person who has that disease

to please i was waiting for him then

just 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 okay

okay okay it's okay

he said okay 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 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 a

hundred requests a week

doesn't mean you have to try to fulfill

all of that

just because you have all of these

demands on

your time and on you doesn't mean that

you

have to say yes you get to decide

because you're the master of your fate

the captain of your soul as william

ernest henley said

in invictus and understanding that

really changed the meaning of my life in

that i was not

no longer driven by what other people

wanted me to do

but took charge of my own destiny making

choices based upon

what do i feel is the next right

move for me quincy jones discovered me

and it's so interesting to me because

when i was uh working as a television

news woman in baltimore

and really all i wanted to do was be in

actors but i was

doing television and i felt at the time

like i can't quit this job

because this is what everybody else

wants to do and if i quit this job

what am i going to do um

and i was going to a speech coach at the

time that the station had sent me to

they

you know they have the broadcasting

school they sent everybody the same

woman

and i was telling her you know i really

don't want to do this what i really want

to do

is act and she says my dear you don't

want to act because if you wanted to act

you'd be doing it what you want to be my

dear as a star

because if you wanted to act you'd be

waiting tables in new york you'd be and

i thought now why am i going to wait

tables if i'm already working in tv

so i said well what i think is going to

happen

is i will be discovered because i want

it so badly somebody's going to have to

discover me

and she said you just dream you dream

you're a dreamer so when it happened

i called her up i said you will not

believe this

i got discovered and it really was a

discovery it's like one of those lana

turner stories only

um wasn't a drugstore he was uh in his

hotel room

saw me on tv it was unbelievable the

interesting thing about that is that

i i truly believe that

thoughts are the greatest vehicle to

change

power and success in the world

everything begins with thoughts i mean

the chairs that we're sitting in

the room that we're in all started

because somebody thought it

so i thought up the color purple for

myself

i know this is going to sound strange to

you i read the book

i i got so many copies of that book i

passed the book around

everybody i knew if i was on the bus i'd

pass it out to people

and when i heard that there was going to

be a movie i started i started talking

it up for myself

i didn't know quincy jones or steven

spielberg or how on earth

i would get in this movie i'd never

acted in my life but i

i felt it so intensely that i had to be

a part of that movie i just

i i really do believe i created it for

myself i wanted it more than

anything in the world and would have

done anything to do it

anything to do it turn your wounds

into wisdom you will be wounded many

times in your life

you'll make mistakes some people will

call them failures but i have learned

that failure

is really god's way of saying excuse me

you're moving in the wrong direction

it's just an experience

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just an experience i remember being

taken off the air

in baltimore being told that i was no

longer be

being fit for television and that i

could not anchor the news because i used

to go out on the stories

and my own truth was even though i'm not

a weeper

i would cry for the people in the

stories and uh

which really wasn't very effective as a

news reporter to be covering a fire

and uh crying because the people lost

their house

and it wasn't until they i was demoted

as a on-air anchor woman and

thrown into the talk show arena to get

rid of me

that i allowed my own truth to come

through and the first day i was on the

air

doing my first talk show back in 1978 it

felt like breathing

which is what your true passion should

feel like it should be so

natural to you and so i took what had

been a mistake

what had been perceived as a failure

with my career

as an anchor woman in the news business

and turned it into a talk show career

that's

done okay for me what drives you to keep

working so hard you could

you know you and i are in the 60s

category

and so when you're in your 60s you know

you've lived more than you're going to

live

realistically so when you realize you've

lived more than you're going to live you

can say why not

relax a little bit why not just ease up

why have you decided to even work harder

than you did before

because i think david that everybody you

know the thing that worked for me

all these years whether it was the

magazine or

which i still have or whether it was

the show i could i understood that

there's a common denominator in the

human experience

and i want the same thing you want which

is the same thing you want and you want

what we all want

is to be able to live out

the truest highest expression of

ourselves

as a human being that doesn't end until

you take your last breath

what is the truest highest vision that

you hold for yourself

no matter where you are in your life

there's always the next level there's

always the next level

to the last breath so i feel that i

always

knew that i would get be done with the

show when i felt like

oh i've said as much as i could say here

on this platform and then how will i be

used

i feel that until you have used your

value as a human being you're not done i

first started as a broadcaster i was 19

very insecure

thrown into television pretending to be

barbara walters

looking nothing like her and still going

to college so i do all my classes in the

morning

from eight to one and then the afternoon

i work from two to ten

and did the six o'clock news and would

stay up and study and all that stuff

you know until one two or three o'clock

in the morning and then just start the

routine all over again

and my classmates were so jealous of me

that i remember like

taking my little 115 paycheck and

um at the time i thought it was really a

lot but

taking 115 and trying to appease them i

would like

oh anytime anybody needing money i was

always offering oh you need 10

or taking them out for pizza ordering

pizza for the class and things like that

trying to that whole disease to please

that's where it was the worst for me i

think because

i wanted to be accepted by them and

could not be because

first of all i didn't have the time they

wanted wanted me to pledge and i didn't

have the time to pledge i was

i didn't have the time to be a part of

all the other college activities or a

part of that whole

lifestyle and it was very difficult for

me socially really one of the worst

times of my life because i was trying to

fit in

in school and be a part of that culture

but also trying to build a career

in television it's very difficult for me

to even

see myself as successful because i still

see myself as in the process

of becoming successful to me successful

is getting to the point where you are

absolutely comfortable with yourself

and it does not matter how many things

you have acquired

the ability to learn to say no and not

to feel guilty about it

to me is about the greatest success i

have achieved

the fact that i have you know in the

public side done whatever

is fine it's all a part of a process for

for growing for me

but to me to have the in the kind of

internal strength

and internal courage it takes to say no

i will not let you treat me this way

is what success is all about it's the

same thing that prevents

you from being abused as a child that

prevents you from being abused as an

adult

that allows you to build success for

yourself i will not be treated this way

i demand

only the best for myself you were worthy

to say no

you were that it's okay if you say no

it's okay if you say no and then people

don't like you

that's really okay the important thing

is how you feel about what you're doing

how you feel about yourself it's a long

struggle though

it's a long struggle and i'm just hoping

that you know in the work that i do on

the show

and the speaking that i do around the

country and that

young people who are watching this can

get the lesson sooner than i did

because it's painful because you keep

repeating it over and over and over

until you get it right and what i found

is that every time you have to repeat

the lesson

it gets worse because it's you know it's

i i call it

god trying to get your attention the

universe trying to get your attention so

we didn't get your attention the first

time so we're gonna have to hit you a

little harder this time so

i'm still doing it i'm still learning

create the highest grandest

vision possible for your life because

you become what you believe when i was a

little girl

mississippi growing up on the farm only

buckwheat is a role model

watching my grandmother boil clothes in

a big iron pot through the screen door

because

we didn't have a washing machine and

made everything we had

i watched her and realized somehow

inside myself and the spirit of myself

that although this was segregated

mississippi

and i was colored and

female that my life could be bigger

greater than what i saw i remember being

four or five years old i certainly

couldn't articulate it but it was a

feeling

and a feeling that i allowed myself to

follow

i allowed myself to follow because if

you were to ask me what is the secret to

my success

it is because i understand that there is

a power greater than myself

that rules my life

and in life in life

if you can be still long enough in

in all of your endeavors the good times

the hard times

to connect yourself to the source

i call it god you can call it whatever

you want to the force nature

allah the power if you can connect

yourself to the source and allow the

energy that is your personality

your life force to be connected to the

greater force

anything is possible for you

i am proof of that i think that my life

the fact that i was

born where i was born in the time that i

was and have been able to do what i've

done

speaks to the possibility not that i am

special

but that it could be done

i have paid attention to my life because

i

understand that my life just like your

life

is always speaking to you where you

are in the language with the people

with the circumstances and experiences

that

you can understand and interpret if you

are willing to see that

always life god

is speaking to you now

it took me a while to actually really

get this and to understand it but once i

did

i started paying attention to everything

and one of the reasons why i can now

accept the fact

that i can offer my

gatherings of information and wisdom and

call myself a spiritual teacher

is that every single person whoever came

on my show and i hear there's like

37 000 guests i've talked to

a lot of them came from dysfunction and

a lot of them wouldn't appear to be

teachers but every one of them had

something to say

that was meaningful and valuable and

that i could use

to grow myself into

the best of myself which is what all of

our jobs are

your number one job is to become more of

yourself

and to grow yourself into the best of

yourself

i remember when i started the school and

i said to my uh beloved uh friend maya

angelou i said maya

i'm so i'm just so proud that i was able

to create this school and i said this is

going to be my greatest legacy

and maya said to me you have no idea

because your legacy

is every life you've touched and that

shifted

the way i saw legacy or what you leave

behind

or what you do because maya was

explaining to me that

you know over all the years of watching

your show everybody who decided that

they were going to go back to school or

lose weight

or no longer hit their children or get

out of a bad marriage

all of those people who have seen and

experienced your voice

and the same thing with everybody here

your legacy

is every life that you've touched and we

like to think of it i know

you have done amazing things with your

philanthropy

we like to think that these great

philanthropic moments

are the ones that leave the impact or

will make the huge difference in the

world but it's really what you do

every day it's how you use your life

to be a light to somebody else's

you know and it's how you use your work

as an

expression of your own art whatever that

is

close your eyes for a moment will you

please

and breathe with me just close your eyes

and if you will

put your thumb to your middle finger

and gather your other fingers around and

let's feel

the vibration and pulse of your personal

energy

as you take three deep breaths with me

inhale

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and as you exhale just feel

the vibration energy

blood pulsating through

your body through you and another inhale

and another inhale

and keep your eyes closed

and let's just think about

this day

this day that you have been graced

to breathe

in and out thousands of times

this day where many of those breaths

were taken for granted you just expected

the next one to come

but the truth is there's no guarantee

that the next one comes

this day how you started your day

what your thoughts were this morning

how you've carried yourself through this

day

how you've been allowed to have

encounters and experiences

some challenging some more life

enhancing

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that push you forward another day

of being here on the planet earth

as a human being

let's just think about that after all

you've been through

in this day alone

and the many days and years passed

how you got here to this prestigious

esteemed university

the choices you made that have brought

you to

this day

open your heart

and quietly to yourself

say the only prayer that's ever needed

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thank you

thank you

thank you

you're still here

and you get another chance this day

to do better and be better

another chance to become more of who

you were created

and what you were created to fulfill

thank you

as i've grown older i've learned to

appreciate

living in the moment and i ask that you

do too

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

you will never have enough be grateful

keep a journal

you all are all over my journal tonight

your real job in life is to figure out

what it is you are called to do

and you use a job until you can figure

out

what the calling is because a job is

necessary to survive and you live in a

world where you so

in my early days i had a job i had a job

until i could figure out what it was

really

what that gave my life its purpose and

meaning

and i'd gotten demoted in my job

in baltimore as an anchor woman because

as they hired me

and then they decided i was the wrong

color and i was the wrong size and i was

the wrong you know i had lots of

problems and they were trying to take me

off the air

and they they put me on a talk show one

morning because um

they didn't know what to do with me but

i felt like

this is what i'm supposed to do all

these years have been

misplaced in news so but the moment i

did that talk show i felt like oh

i can be myself and that was august 14th

1978 and that was the beginning of

fulfilling

the calling if you can find what is your

passion if you

find what you love you never get tired

or if you do get tired

you you're fueled by the energy of your

work

so i know that i'm doing exactly what

i'm supposed to be doing at this time

i also know that what the show can do

in terms of being a voice and changing

the world

it's just the beginning of what this

show can do it's fun to do things like

this

but uh and it's necessary to do things

like this in order to be able to do

the bigger grander things to change what

happens to to the face of children in

africa for example

what happens to education with kids in

this country

so i believe that that what has happened

to me

is really the beginning of the greater

passion

to come but if you find out what you're

supposed to do

and you know what you're supposed to do

by how it feels

and so you know what if you're doing the

right thing if it feels like it's right

to you and when you hit the thing that

feels right when you

know it's the right thing you would you

know it's right

because it gives you your juice and you

know it's right because you would do it

for nothing

you would do it for nothing and find a

way to be able just to do it

in order to be able to continue that's

how you know you're doing what you're

supposed to be doing

there were many days that i sat in my

chair across from

one or two or five or six or seven

people and i would be

so frustrated because

i just wanted to shake people sometimes

and say why didn't you pay attention

to your life i said on the show probably

the producers tell me that they counted

33 times but i know i thought it

at least a thousand times i would say

listening to your life

as it whispers to you first so that it

does not have to

knock you upside the head with a brick

or come crashing down on you

as a brick wall is one of the greatest

principles of life

because there are many things that

happen in life

that are beyond our control natural

disasters

death unexplained events

but there are also many many many things

in life which we can control

and become out of control because you're

just

not paying attention you are

sleepwalking through your life

and i have seen this so many times on

the show

i wanted to take the guests and go juju

pay

attention so this is what i've learned

and how

i've explained it to myself

life whispers to you all the time

your life is speaking to you all around

from the time you wake up in the morning

and every single experience that's

coming into

your personal space into your

physical space all of those experiences

are speaking to you they're telling you

something

about your life and about your

circumstances

it whispers and if you don't get the

whisper

the whisper gets louder if you don't

get the whisper when it gets louder it

gets i call it like a little pebble like

a little thump upside your head

when i was a kid if i was doing

something my grandmother didn't like

she'd just turn around and thump me she

wouldn't even look at me she'd just give

me a thump and i'd know

that's that's my cue to stop it or you

we're gonna get worse the whisper is the

message

the pebble or the thump upside the head

usually

it's gone into a problem you don't pay

attention to the problem

the problem becomes a brick upside your

head

the brick upside your head is a crisis

you don't pay attention to the brick

upside your head

the crisis turns into a disaster and the

whole

house brick wall comes falling down

many of you as i have been as i am

are where you are in your life based

upon what you believe

and it's not just what you think you

believe on the surface

it's also your shadow beliefs that are

holding you back

from moving into the life that you

believe

you deserve what i know is if you're not

looking at the shadows if you're not

looking at what is

subconsciously running through the tape

in your mind

telling yourself you're not good enough

you're not worthy enough you're not

smart enough you're not enough which is

a tape that's playing for a lot of

people if you're not conscious of that

then you end up acting out of that

belief system

and not out of what you know to be the

truest

or want to be the truest for yourself

but you don't become what you want

because so much of wanting is about

living in the space of what you don't

have so if you start to think about that

really why are you where you are in your

life

the choices that you have made have been

because of what you believe to be true

for yourself

but i have always had the deep

understanding for myself that if

anything was going to move forward in my

life that i was going to have to be

responsible for making that happen

and i know that to be true now and can

articulate it

as you are responsible for your

life and if you're sitting around

waiting on somebody to save you

to fix you to even help you

you are wasting your time because only

you

have the power to take responsibility

to move your life forward and the sooner

you get that

the sooner your life gets into gear this

is what i know from doing

25 years and thousands and thousands of

interviews on the oprah show

it does not matter where you come from

i have seen people come out of the

desert walk across the desert

being born in the most dire

circumstances doesn't matter what your

mama

did whether she did or had a phd

or no d what matters is now

this moment and your willingness to see

this moment

for what it is accept it forgive the

past

take responsibility and move forward

my one hope today is is to is that i can

be a source of some inspiration i'm

going to address my remarks to anybody

who's

ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged

felt screwed by life this is a speech

for the quad

well i was on television by the time i

was 19 years old

and in 1986 i launched my own television

show

with a relentless determination to

succeed at first

i was nervous about the competition and

then

i became my own competition raising the

bar

every year pushing pushing pushing

myself as hard as i knew

sound familiar to anybody here

eventually

we did make it to the top and we stayed

there for

25 years

the oprah winfrey show was number one in

our time slot for 21

years and i have to tell you i became

pretty comfortable with

that level of success but a few years

ago

i decided as you will at some point that

it was time to

recalculate find new territory

break new ground so i ended the show

and launched own the oprah winfrey

network one year

later after launching on nearly

every media outlet had proclaimed

that my new venture was a flop not just

a flop but

a big bold flop they call it i can still

remember the day

i opened up usa today and read the

headline

oprah not quite standing on her

own it really

was this time last year the worst

period in my professional life i was

stressed and i was frustrated and quite

frankly i was i was actually

i was embarrassed it doesn't matter how

far you might rise

at some point you are bound to stumble

because

if you're constantly doing what we do

raising the bar if you're constantly

pushing yourself

higher higher the law of averages

not to mention the myth of icarus

predicts

that you will at some point fall

and when you do i want you to know this

remember this

there is no such thing as failure

failure is just

life trying to move us in another

direction now when you're down there in

a hole it looks like

failure so this past year i had to spoon

feed those words to myself

and when you're down in the hole when

that moment comes it's really

okay to feel bad for a little while give

yourself

time to mourn what you think you may

have lost

but then here's the key learn

from every mistake because every

experience encounter and particularly

your mistakes

are there to cheat you and force you

into being more of who you are

and then figure out what is the next

right move and the key to life

is to develop an internal moral

emotional gps that can tell you

which way to go

but the challenge of life i have found

is to build a resume that doesn't simply

tell a story

about what you want to be but it's a

story about

who you want to be it's a resume that

doesn't just tell a story about

what you want to accomplish but why a

story that's not just a collection of

titles and and positions but a story

that's really

about your purpose because when you

inevitably stumble and find yourself

stuck in a hole that is the story

that will get you out what is your true

calling

what is your dharma what is your purpose

for me that discovery came in 1994 when

i interviewed a little girl who

who had decided to collect pocket change

in order to help

other people in need she raised a

thousand dollars all by herself and i

thought well if that little

nine-year-old girl

with a bucket and a big heart could do

that i wonder what i could do

so i asked for our viewers to take up

their own

change collection and in one month

just from pennies and nickels and dimes

we raised more than three million

dollars

that we used to send one student from

every state in the united states to

college

and together we built 55 schools

in 12 different countries and restored

nearly 300 homes

that were devastated by hurricanes rita

and katrina

so the angel network i've been on the

air for

a long time but it was the angel network

that actually focused my internal gps

it helped me to decide that i wasn't

just gonna be

on tv every day but that the goal

of my shows my interviews my business

my philanthropy all of it whatever

ventures i might pursue

would be to make clear that

what unites us is

ultimately far more redeeming and

compelling

than anything that separates me because

what it become clear to me

and i want you to know it isn't always

clear in the beginning because as i said

i've been on television since i was 19

years old

but around 94 i got really clear so

don't expect the clarity to come all at

once to know your purpose right away

but what became clear to me was that i

was here on earth to use television and

not be used by it

to use television to illuminate the

transcendent

power of our better angels

so this angel network it didn't just

change the lives of those who were

helped but the lives

of those who also did the helping

it reminded us that no matter who we are

or what we look

like or what we may believe it is

both possible and more importantly

it becomes powerful to come together

in common purpose and common effort

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in our political system and in the media

we often see

the reflection of a country that is

polarized

that is paralyzed and is self-interest

did and yet i know you know the truth

we all know that we are better than the

cysticism

and the pessimism that is regurgitated

throughout washington

and the 24-hour cable news cycle

we understand that the vast majority of

people in this country believe in

stronger background checks because

they realize that we can uphold the

second amendment

and also reduce the violence

that is robbing us of our children and

we understand

that most americans believe in a clear

path to citizenship for the 12 million

undocumented immigrants who reside in

this country because it's possible to

both

enforce our laws and

at the same time embrace the words on

the statue of liberty that have welcomed

generations of huddle masses to our

shores

we can do both

the point is your generation is charged

with this

task of breaking through what the body

politic

has thus far made impervious to change

each of you has been blessed with this

enormous opportunity

of attending this prestigious school

you now have a chance to better your

life the lives of your neighbors

and also the life of our country when

you do that

let me tell you what i know for sure

that's when your story gets really good

maya angelou always says when you learn

teach when you get give

that my friends is what gives your story

purpose and meaning so you all have the

power

in your own way to develop your own

angel network

and in doing so your class will be armed

with more tools of influence

and empowerment than any other

generation

in history i did it in an analog world

i was blessed with a platform that at

its height

reach nearly 20 million viewers a day

now here in a world of twitter and

facebook and youtube and tumblr

you can reach billions in just seconds

i know you all understand better than

most that real progress

requires authentic

an authentic way of being honesty and

above all

empathy i have to say that the single

most important lesson i learned in 25

years talking

every single day to people was that

there is a common denominator

in our human experience

most of us i tell you we don't want to

be divided

what we want the common denominator that

i found in every single interview

is we want to be validated we want to be

understood

i've done over 35 000

interviews in my career and

as soon as that camera shuts off

everyone always turns to me and

inevitably in their own way

asks this question was that okay

[Music]

i heard it from president bush i heard

it from president obama

i've heard it from heroes and from

housewives i've heard it from

victims and perpetrators of crimes i

even heard it from beyonce and all of

her beyonce

she finishes performing hands me the

microphone and says

was that okay

friends and family yours enemies

strangers in every argument

in every encounter every exchange i will

tell you

they all want to know one thing

was that okay did you hear me

do you see me did what i

say mean anything to you

so whether you call it soul or spirit or

higher self intelligence there

is i know this there is a light inside

each of you all of us

that illuminates your very human

beingness

if you let it no matter what challenges

or setbacks or disappointments you may

encounter along the way

you will find true success and happiness

if you have only one goal there really

is only one and that is this

to fulfill the highest most

truthful expression of yourself

as a human being you want to max

out your humanity by using your energy

to lift yourself

up your family and the people around you

theologian howard thurman said it best

he said don't ask yourself what the

world

needs ask yourself what makes you come

alive and then go

do that because what the world needs

is people who have come alive

from time to time you may stumble

fall you will for sure count on this

no doubt you will have questions

and you will have doubts about your path

but i know this if you're willing to

listen

to be guided by that still small voice

that is the gps within yourself

to find out what makes you come alive

you will be more than okay you will be

happy you will be successful

and you will make a difference in the

world

[Music]

the three things that i want to leave

with you just

these three i could do ten i could do a

whole life class

but just these three things will carry

you

if you let them

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

who am i really my answer is i am god's

child

i am that which is born of all that

is i am as peter chardin said

a spiritual being having a human

experience

come trailing the breath of the

ancestors yet

but trailing the breath of the angels

and understanding

that because i am connected

to the source of all that is

all that is possible is possible for me

that's who i am and what do i want

i don't want to just be

successful in the world

i don't want to just make a mark or

have a legacy the answer to that

question for me is

i want to fulfill the highest

truest expression of myself

as a human being i want to fulfill the

promise

that the creator dreamed when he dreamed

the cells that made up me what do i want

you must have some kind of

vision for your life even if you don't

know the plan

you have to have a direction in which

you choose to go

what i've learned is that's a great

metaphor for life

you want to be in the driver's seat of

your own life because if you're not

life will drive you

so knowing who you

really are in this space and time

that we embody that's number one

what do you want who are you

number two you must

find a way to serve

[Music]

martin luther king said that not

everybody can be famous but everybody

can be great because greatness is

determined

by service now we live in a world where

everybody wants to be famous

and where we admire people for just

being famous we think being known

brings us value the truth is all of that

will fade in time in three years you

won't be able to name the housewives

of atlanta the real truth

is that service

and significance

service and the significance that you

bring to your service

is that which is lasting so to be able

to

whatever your occupation or job or

talent or gift is our honorees today

getting doctorate degrees to

[Music]

apparently opposite fields hiv and aids

and the spoken word but what they have

in common

is service using the spoken word

in service to community and the world

using your knowledge and information

about hiv and aids and medicine

in service to the world and if you look

at all the most

successful people in the world whether

they know it or not

they have that paradigm of service

everybody's talking about mark

zuckerberg and ipo

[Music]

service jay-z rapping

service through the word to people

through song for many years

i was really just happy to be on tv and

people would stop and say oh you on tv

yeah i'm on tv

i like being on tv it's a nice job

and it was about the time that i

received my

honorary doctorate from spelman around

1993 so i don't know if that had

something to do with it i thought of

myself as dr winfrey

that i went back and i took a long look

at what it was i was doing on

on tv and made a decision

that i was no longer going to just be on

tv

but i was going to use tv

as a platform as a force for good

and not be used by tv and i will tell

you

my decision to make that

significant change in the way i operated

on television using television as a

service

changed my career exponentially

service through medicine service through

art using whatever it is

you produce your product

as a way of giving back to the world

when you shift the paradigm of whatever

it is you choose to do

to service and you bring significance to

that

success will i promise you

follow you service and significance

equals success that's number two

number three it's so simple but so hard

to do

always do the right

thing be excellent

people notice think of how you notice

you go to taco bell somebody gives you

extra napkin and some sauce

you notice you want to go back to that

person

because even at taco bell excellence

shows itself be excellent let

excellence be your brand

everybody talks about building a brand i

never even knew what that was

when people say you're a brand i would

say no i'm just oprah

what i recognize now is that my choice

to in every way in every example

in every experience to do the right

thing

and the excellent thing is what has

created

the brand and what i know

is that when you are excellent

you become unforgettable

people remember you you stand out

regardless of what it is

you become an unforgettable woman and

that is what we all want

we want to be unforgettable and not

forgettable

so doing the right thing even

when nobody knows you're doing the right

thing

will always bring the right thing to you

i promise you that why because the third

law of motion is always at work

for every action there's an equal and

opposite reaction

that is so true in all of our lives

you just have to do the right thing and

the right thing will follow you even

when people

don't support it i remember

many times on my show there are many

shows y'all never saw

and the reason you didn't see them is

because i

got the last vote and i remember

2010 my team hardest working team in

television had done this

interview with a woman who turns out she

was a sunday school teacher by day

and a sex addict at night they were like

you won't believe it we got her going

out

we got her with the men and we get to

show her and she was willing to show us

everything

i sat down with a woman for an interview

that was taped

and during the process of the interview

i said

why are you doing this and she said oh i

want to help

people i want to tell my story and i

want to help people i said do you have

children she says yes

i have a 10 year old son i knew right

then this is never going to see the

light of day

so we got off the air and i said to the

lady we are not going to air that show

and she said why my producer said

why she knew she was being filmed she

knew

what she was saying she knows what i

said because

her son will never get over it

her son will never get over it

and it's not worth a rating point to me

not worth the rating point to me to know

that there's a ten-year-old boy

who's destroyed because his mother went

on the oprah winfrey show

and told all her business you do

the right thing even when other people

think it may not be and oftentimes

when you make a decision to do the right

thing immediately you're faced with

doubt

was that the right thing was that the

right decision i don't know was that the

right thing

you always know it's the right thing

when in the end

there is peace you are rewarded

by peace in knowing that you did the

right thing

[Music]

you

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[音乐]

有一个更大的梦想

在等着你就等你

踏入它

你尝试做的一切都已经完成

所以当我明白哦我

正在推出的

是什么会回来让我

真正清楚什么

我说得非常清楚，

所以我读了一本关于 1989 年的书，名为

《灵魂的种子》

，在那本书中，加里·祖科夫谈到

了因果定律的业力定律

，第三运动定律

，在那本书中，他 谈到

你的意图

总是与法律

含义一致，甚至在你考虑一件事情之前

你对这件事有意图，并且

意图将决定结果

，这就是为什么同一个人可以去

同一个教堂服务

和 有人走在过道上只是

为了被看到

在教堂里放了一些钱，

而其他人只是去

，只是有一点点提供

你的意图 你给出

的意图 你服务的意图

决定了结果，所以wh 我

发现我走了哇

我改变了我在节目中所做的一切

我打电话给制作人我说

从今天开始

我将不再与 kkk 说话

我将不再

与互相争斗的人说话 在某种程度上

，这会损害

我自己和其他人的性格，

从今天开始，我只会

做有

意识的电视，

所以我的意图是我的

意图是实现

创造者的梦想，

我的意图是为之而活

最高的

召唤，并被压在我来做

的最高召唤

的标记上，当你可以

问造物主

问是什么让你成为你的

梦想时，我

向你保证，而不是你试图定义

梦想是什么 是你

对我的梦想，如果你能够倾身

于梦想

，宇宙和所有

的光，爱，力量

和恩典的力量，我们称之为上帝的所有名字

都为你拥有，没有人可以触摸你

每一个人 那天我会 开个展前

会议

，让制片人进来

告诉我你的意图是什么

启发性的鼓励性和

娱乐

性如果它不这样做那我就做不到

有一个更大的梦想

等着你只等你踏入

它踏入它你的生活很大

你的生活很大而且我们 花这么多

时间

想进入别人的生活

，却得不到尊重，得不到

尊重，得不到

庆祝

知道他们会成为你的

祖先 梦想着你的种子

想让你知道 多么特别

多么奇妙 多么神秘 多么复杂

多么光荣 多么了不起

你在

别人的领土上搞砸了没有信用 你

或试图对

你无法控制的事物拥有权力

我最喜欢的另一个教义

是绿野仙踪，当

西方的邪恶说

离开这里，因为你在这里没有任何

权力，你

在任何地方都没有权力 除了你自己的领土

哦，但你是它的主人，

你将成为自己命运的主人，

你将成为

自己灵魂

的船长 光荣

光荣

奇妙 奇妙的机会

和可能性在等着

你 所以问题

是你在抵制什么 你在

推动什么 你不允许

什么 你在阻止什么 因为你有

这个想法

你应该成为什么样的人

靠在

已经创造的梦想中

等待你它在等待你

，第二个我的意思是它不是

一瞬间的事情

它是你

看待自己的方式和来自的力量的转变

你来了，

我经历了一些艰难的时期，

在我离开奥普拉秀之后，我做出了一个

有意识的决定

，当我觉得我已经说了我

能说的所有内容

并且观众听到了我

会继续前进

并且我不会 一生都在

后悔或试图坚持

过去或坚持我所拥有的，

所以我梦想着建立一个网络的梦想，一

开始这是一场

斗争，

这是一场斗争，因为我没有

诚实 天哪，我不知道自己

在做什么

电缆，您

没有自己的包裹

，所以我花了一分钟时间

，与大多数人不同，您

私下会犯错误，

有些人在您的生活中不会正确，如果我犯了错误，您

可以私下沉浸其中

它在 cnn

爬行

或 cnn 新闻上，所以当我在

攀爬时 有很多很棒的

老板我看到了 churro action jackson 这里

有很多很棒的老板

人说哦我们会

和你站在一起我们会支持

你谢谢罗兰马丁

有很多人说

听着，我们相信这会发生，

所以

我和我的朋友泰勒佩里一起做梦，他来找

我说

泰勒说我会帮你，

因为泰勒可以回家写

剧本并

指导它制作 它拍摄它

并以比好莱坞任何人都少的钱做它

所以我们从

没有

[掌声]

如果爱你是错误的

爱你的邻居妈妈海蒂

然后我开始梦想另一个

关于

剧本电视的梦想，因为在 一

开始我被告知你不能做

你不能做它没有足够的

钱

去做我梦见

我读的谚语11 28说

那些相信他们的财富的人会倒下，

但正义会 上升一个

像一片绿叶一样茁壮成长

[音乐]

我很难

弄清楚自己的界限在哪里，

因为我从小就贫穷，

一无所有，

所以当你一无所有而人们要求你时，这很容易

钱

他们说我需要 500

你说我没有，因为我只是

想付房租

当你数十亿

美元的薪水现在在纸上而且

你有很多朋友和表亲时，这

更难了 以前没有，

所以你如何为自己设定界限

我很难

为自己设定界限，即使是陌生人，人们

也会出现在我芝加哥的门口

，说哦，兄弟，我离开了我的丈夫，请

帮助我

，我会因为她 知道我有，

所以我学到的是，哦，

人们不断出现的原因是

因为

我的目的是让他们认为

我是一个很好的人

，你可以向我要任何事情

你可以让我做任何事情 我会

说是的 我会说

是的 所以当 stevie 打来电话时 我这次

我想我会尝试我的第一个

拒绝 stevie

让我们从大做起 他希望我

向慈善机构捐款

，我不想向

慈善机构捐款，因为

我有自己的慈善机构，我

关心 很多人，

但问题是当你有钱时，

每个人都认为你只想

付出一切，所以我收到的每封信都

以

我们知道你爱孩子们的开头，

是的，我确实爱孩子们，但

其他人将不得不这样做 帮助

孩子们，

所以我对 stevie 说，嗯，我对 stevie

说不

，嗯，作为一个患有这种疾病的人，

我在等他，然后

只是说

我再也不会和你说话了，

我永远不会打电话给你，我永远不会唱歌

一首歌给你

，他没有他只是说好吧

好吧好吧没关系

他说好吧稍后检查你，

我从中学到的是很多时候

你会

焦虑和担心事情，

让自己处于当对方时的状态

真的没想到

你

这么学习 我可以

为自己具体确定

我的界限是什么

每周收到一百个请求

并不意味着您必须尝试满足

所有

这些要求，因为您

对

自己的时间和您有所有这些要求并不意味着

您

必须说是的，您必须做出决定，

因为您 重新成为你命运的主人

就像威廉·

欧内斯特·亨利 (william ernest henley)

在《invictus》和《理解》中所说的那样，这

真的改变了我生命的意义，

因为我

不再被其他人

想让我做的事情所驱使，

而是掌控了自己 命运

根据

我的感觉做出选择对我来说是下一个正确的

举动昆西·琼斯发现了我

这对我来说很有趣因为

当我呃在巴尔的摩担任电视

新闻女记者

时我真正想做的就是成为

演员 但是我 当时

我在做电视，我当时

觉得我不能辞掉这份工作，

因为这是其他人都

想做的事情，如果我辞掉这份工作

我会做什么，嗯

，我当时要去演讲教练

电视台把我送到

他们那里

你知道他们有广播

学校 他们把每个人都送到了同一个

女人 我告诉她你知道我真的

不想这样做 我真正想做的

就是表演 她说亲爱的 你

不想演戏，因为如果你想演戏，

你会做你想做的事

现在想

如果我已经在电视工作，为什么还要等桌子

所以我说我认为会

发生的事情

是我会被发现，因为我非常想要

它，有人将不得不

发现我

，她说你 只是梦想你梦想

你是一个梦想家所以当它发生时

我打电话给她我说你不会

相信

我走了 没有发现，这真的是一个

发现，就像拉娜·

特纳的故事之一，

他不是药店，他在

酒店房间

，在电视上看到我，这令人难以置信，

有趣的是，我

真的相信

思想是

改变

世界上权力和成功的最伟大

的工具一切都

始于思想 对你来说听起来很奇怪

我读了

这本书我得到了这么多那本书我把这

本书传给

每个人我知道如果我在公共汽车上我会把

它传给

人们当我听说会有

成为一部电影，我开始了我

开始为自己谈论它

我不知道昆西琼斯或史蒂文斯皮尔伯格，也不知道我

到底

会如何进入这部电影我从来没有

在我的生活中表演过，但

我觉得它是如此强烈以至于我不得不

成为那部电影的一部分，我只是

ii 真的相信我为自己创造了它

我

比世界上任何事情都想要它并且愿意

做任何事情去做

任何事情去做它把你的伤口

变成智慧你会

在你的生活中多次受伤

你会犯一些错误 会

称他们为失败，但我知道

失败真的是上帝的说法，对不起，

你走错了方向，

这只是一种体验

[音乐]

只是一种体验，我记得

在巴尔的摩被停播，被告知我是

不再适合看电视，而且我

无法主持新闻，因为我过去

常常讲故事，

而我自己的事实是，即使我

不是哭泣者，

我也会为故事中的人哭泣

，嗯

，这真的 作为一名

新闻记者来报道火灾

并哭泣并不是很有效，因为人们失去了

他们的房子

，直到他们被降级

为广播女主播并被

扔进脱口秀舞台

摆脱 我的

那个 让我自己的真相得以

实现，

我在 1978 年的第一场脱口秀节目上播出的第一天，

感觉就像在呼吸

，这就是你真正的激情应该

感觉对你来说应该如此

自然，所以我接受了

是一个错误

，在我作为新闻界女主播的职业生涯中被认为是失败

的，

并将其变成了脱口秀职业

，

这对我来说还不错是什么驱使你继续

努力工作，

你知道你和我 在 60 多岁的

类别中

，所以当你 60

多

岁时，你知道你活得比实际生活要多，所以当你意识到自己

活得比你要活的多时，你

可以说为什么不

放松 有点为什么不放松一下

为什么你决定比以前更努力地工作

因为我认为大卫你认识的每个人这些年来

对我有用的东西

无论是

杂志

还是我仍然拥有的或者是否它 是

我能理解的节目吗

人类经验有一个共同点

，我想要你想要的同样的东西，你

想要的同样的东西，你想要

我们都想要的

是能够活出

我们自己

作为一个人最真实的最高表达 直到你咽下最后一口气才结束

无论你在生活中的哪个阶段，你为自己持有的最真实的最高愿景是什么，

总是有下一个层次，最后一口气总是有下一个层次

，所以我觉得我

一直

都知道 当我觉得我已经完成了这个

节目时，我

已经在这个平台上说了尽可能多的话

，然后我将如何被

使用

我觉得直到你使用你

作为一个人的价值你是 未完成 我

刚开始是一名广播员 我 19

岁时非常没有安全感 被扔进电视里 假装是芭芭拉·沃尔特斯

看起来一点也不像她 还在

上大学 所以我

早上

从八点到 1 点上完所有的课 然后下午

我工作 从两点到十点

，做六点钟的新闻，

熬夜学习和所有

你知道的东西，直到凌晨两点或三

点钟，然后重新开始

例行公事

，我的同学们都很嫉妒

我记得

我喜欢拿我的小 115 薪水，

嗯，当时我认为这真的

很多，但

拿 115 并试图安抚

他们 出去吃

披萨 为班级订购披萨之类的东西

试图让整个疾病取悦

那对我来说是最糟糕的 我

认为因为

我想被他们接受而

不能因为

首先我没有 他们

希望我承诺

的时间，而我没有时间承诺，

我没有时间参与

所有其他大学活动或

整个

生活方式的一部分，这很难

我在社交上真的是最糟糕的人之一

我生命中最重要的时刻，因为我试图

融入学校并成为那种文化的一部分，

但也试图

在电视界建立职业生涯，

我什至很难

将自己视为成功，因为我仍然

认为自己

处于 对我来说成功 成功

就是达到你对自己绝对满意的地步，

不管

你获得

了多少东西 学会对我说不和不

为此

感到内疚是最大的成功

已经实现

了这样一个事实，即我让你知道在

公共方面做任何事情

都很好，这对我来说都是成长过程的一部分，

但对我来说，拥有那种

内在的力量

和内在的勇气需要说不，

我 不会让

你这样对待我 成功

就是这样 防止

你小时候

被虐待 防止你成年后被虐待

让你为自己建立

成功 如果我不会被这样对待

我

只要求为自己最好

是你对你正在做的事情的

感觉 你对自己的感觉 这是一场长期的

斗争，虽然

这是一场长期的斗争，我只是

希望你知道我在节目中所做的工作

以及我在周围做的演讲

国家和

那些正在看这个的年轻人可以

比我更快地得到教训，

因为这很痛苦，因为你

一遍又一遍地重复它，

直到你做对了，我

发现每次你都必须重复

这个

教训 变得更糟，因为你知道它是

上帝试图引起你的注意

宇宙试图引起你的注意所以

我们第一次没有引起你的注意所以

这次我们将不得不更加努力地打击你

所以

我 我还在做我还在学习

为你的生活创造最高最宏大的愿景，因为

当我还是个小女孩时，你变成了你所相信的那样

，在农场长大的密西西比只有

荞麦是一个榜样，

透过纱门看着我的祖母在一个大铁锅里煮衣服，

因为

我们 没有洗衣机，

做了我们所有的东西

四五岁的时候我当然

无法表达出来，但这是

一种感觉，我允许自己

跟随

我允许自己跟随，因为如果

你要问我成功的秘诀是什么，

那是因为我 明白有

一种比我更伟大的力量

来统治我的生活

和生活中的生活，

如果你能在你所有的努力中保持足够长的时间，无论

好

时光还是艰难时光

将你自己连接到源头

我称之为上帝你可以

随心所欲地

称它为力量自然阿拉如果你能将

自己连接到源头并允许作为

你个性的能量

你的生命力与

更强大的力量连接

对

你来说一切皆有可能

很特别

，但可以做到

我关注我的生活，因为

我

明白我的生活就像你的

生活

一样，总是在和你说话，

你的语言和人们的语言

，

你可以理解和解释的情况和经历，如果

你愿意看到

生命之

神一直在和你说话，现在

我花了一段时间才

真正理解并理解它，但一旦我

这样做了，

我就开始关注一切

，这也是我为什么要这样做的原因之一 现在可以

接受这样一个事实

，即我可以提供我

收集的信息和智慧，

并称自己为精神

导师，

我的节目中出现的每一个人，我听说有大约

37 000 名客人，我

与他们中的很多人交谈过 功能障碍

，他们中的很多人似乎都不是

老师，但他们每个人都有

一些

有意义和有价值的话

，我可以用这些话

来让自己成长

为最好的自己，这就是我们所有

的工作都是

你的数字 一项工作是变得更像

自己

，让自己成长为最好的

自己

我记得当我开始上学时，

我对我亲爱的朋友

玛雅安吉卢说，我说玛雅，

所以我很自豪我

能够创建这所学校，我说这

将是我最大的遗产

，玛雅对我说你不知道，

因为你的遗产

是你接触过的每一个生活，这

改变

了我看待遗产的方式，或者你留下的东西

，

或者 你做什么是因为玛雅哇

我向我解释说，

你知道多年来看

你的节目的每个人决定

他们要回到学校或

减肥

或不再打他们的孩子或

摆脱糟糕的婚姻

所有那些看过的人 和

这里的每个人都经历过你的声音和同样的事情

你的遗产

是你接触过的每一个生命，我们

喜欢这样想

会留下影响或

将对世界产生巨大影响，

但这实际上是您每天所做的事情，

这是您如何利用自己的

生活成为您认识的其他人的光

，这就是您如何使用自己的作品

来

表达自己的艺术 不管是什么，请

闭上你的眼睛，请你

和我一起呼吸，闭上你的眼睛

，如果你

把你的拇指放在你的中指上，

然后把你的其他手指放在周围，

让我们

感受一下

当你和我一起深呼吸三次时，你个人能量的振动和脉动

吸气

[音乐]

，当你呼气时，

感受振动能量，

血液

通过你的身体脉动，另一次吸气

，再一次吸气

，闭上眼睛

，让我们思考 关于

这一天

这一天 你有幸

呼吸了数千次 在

这一天许多呼吸

被认为是理所当然的 你只是

期待下一次的到来

但事实是无法

保证下一次的

到来 一天你是如何开始你的一天的

你今天早上的想法是什么 你是

如何

度过这一天的

你是如何被允许

遇到和经历

一些具有挑战性的一些更多的生活

改善

[音乐

] 推动你

在这里度过又一天 在地球上，

作为一个人类，

让我们想一想，毕竟

你已经

独自度过了这一天

，许多日子和岁月过去了

，你是如何得到的 来到这所享有盛誉的

大学

你所做的选择让

你走到

了今天

打开你的

心扉 静静地对自己

说唯一需要的祈祷

[音乐]

谢谢谢谢

谢谢你还在这里

，你有另一个机会 这

一天做得更好，变得更好，

另一个机会让你更多地成为

你被创造的人，你被创造出来的目的

是为了

感谢你，

因为我已经长大了，我学会了

珍惜

当下的生活，我要求你

也这样做

我问过我要问这个

毕业班的你们这些人

我已经要求我在美国

和世界各地的所有观众

都做这件事每晚写一份感恩的

日记

列出这几天

发生的五件事

来吧

，你会感激它将

开始做的是改变你

对你的一天和你的生活的看法我相信

如果你能学会专注于你所

拥有的，

你将永远看到宇宙是

丰富的

如果你

专注于你的生活并专注于

你所没有的东西，

你将永远不会有足够的感激之情写

日记今晚你们都在我的日记中

你生活中真正的工作是弄清楚

你被称为什么 去做，

然后你使用一份工作，直到你

弄清楚它

的使命是什么，因为工作是

生存所必需的，你生活在一个你生活的

世界里，所以

在我早期我有一份工作我有一份工作，

直到我能弄清楚 这

真的

是什么给了我的生活它的目的和

意义

，我

在巴尔的摩做主播的工作被降职了，

因为他们雇用了我

，然后他们认为我的

颜色不对，我的尺码不对，我是

错了，你知道我有很多

问题，他们试图让我

停止

直播，他们让我参加了一个脱口秀节目，

因为嗯，

他们不知道该怎么处理我，但

我觉得

这就是我 这些年来应该做的事情

在新闻中被放错了位置，但是当我

有没有那个脱口秀节目我觉得哦，

我可以做我自己了，那是 1978 年 8

月 14 日，那是

履行使命的

开始 累了

，你被你工作的能量所激发，

所以我知道我正在做

我此时应该做的事情

我也知道这个节目

在成为一个声音和

改变 世界

这只是这个

节目可以做的事情的开始做这样的事情很

有趣，但是，有必要做这样的事情

，以便能够

做更大更宏大的事情来改变

孩子们脸上发生的事情

以非洲为例

，这个国家的孩子教育发生了什么，

所以我相信发生

在我身上

的事情确实是更大

热情

的开始，但是如果你知道你

应该做什么

并且你知道你会做什么 重新应该按照

它的

感觉来做 你知道如果你在做

正确的事情，如果感觉对你来说是正确的

，当你击中感觉正确的事情时，

当你

知道这是正确的事情时，你会

知道它是正确的，

因为它给了你你的果汁，你

知道 这是正确的，因为你

会不劳而获，

你会不劳而获，并找到一种

能够做到的方式

，以便能够继续下去，这就是

你如何知道你正在做你

应该在那里做的

事情 有很多天我坐在

椅子上，

面对一两个人，五六个人，七个人，我会很沮丧，因为我有时只想摇晃别人

，说你为什么

不注意你的生活我说过 这个节目

可能制片人告诉我，他们数了

33 次，但我知道我认为它

至少有一千次我会说

倾听你的生活，

因为它首先对你耳语，这样它就

不必

用一个敲你的头 砖头

或像砖头一样砸在你身上

墙是人生最伟大的

原则之一，

因为

生活中发生了许多

我们无法控制的事情自然

灾害

死亡无法解释的事件

但生活中也有很多很多

事情我们可以控制

并变得失控，因为你' 只是

没有注意你在

梦游你的

生活我在节目中看过很多次

我想带客人去juju

注意所以这就是我学到的东西

以及

我如何向自己解释

生活一直在对你耳语 从你早上醒来的那一刻起，

你的生活一直在

对你说话 你

关于你的生活和你的

环境的一些事情

它在耳语，如果你没有听到

耳语，耳语会变得更大声如果你

没有听到耳语，当它变得更响时，它会

变得我

当我还是个孩子的时候，如果我在

做我祖母不喜欢的事情，

她就会转过身来敲打我，她

甚至不会看我她只是 给

我一个重击，我就

知道这是我阻止它的提示，否则

我们会变得更糟 耳语是

信息 鹅卵石或头顶的重击

通常

它已经成为一个你不注意的问题

问题 问题变成了你

头顶

的砖 你头上的砖是危机

你

不注意你头顶

的砖 危机变成了灾难

整个

房子的砖墙都倒塌

了 你们中的许多人 就像我

一样，你在你的生活中所处的位置

取决于你的信仰

，这不仅仅是你认为你

在表面上

相信的东西，还有你的影子信念

阻碍

你进入你认为

你应该得到的生活 我知道如果你不

看 如果你没有

看到你脑海中

潜意识地在磁带中运行的东西，就会出现阴影

告诉自己你不够好

你不值得你不够

聪明你还不够这是

一盘正在播放的磁带 对很多

人来说，如果你没有意识到这一点，

那么你最终会脱离那个

信仰体系，

而不是脱离你所知道的

最真实的东西，

或者想要对自己最真实的东西，

但你不会成为你自己的样子 想要，

因为太多的想要是关于

生活在你没有的空间

里所以如果你开始思考这个问题

，你为什么会在你的

生活中

处于这样的位置你所做的选择是

因为你相信什么 对自己真实

，

但我一直对自己有深刻的

理解，如果

我的生活中有任何事情要向前发展，

我将不得不

为实现这一目标负责

，我现在知道这是真实的，并且可以

清晰表达

因为你要对你的

如果你坐在那里

等着有人

来拯救你，甚至帮助你，那

你就是在浪费你的时间，因为只有

你

有能力承担责任

来推动你的生活，而且

你越早得到

它，你的生活就越快 这

就是我在

25 年和成千上万

的奥普拉节目采访

中所知道的，无论你来自哪里，

我都看到人们从

沙漠中走出来，穿过沙漠

，在最可怕的

环境中出生 不管你

妈妈

做了什么，无论她是否拥有博士学位

或没有博士学位，重要的是现在

这一刻，你愿意看到

这一刻

的真相，接受它，原谅

过去，

承担责任，继续前进，

我今天的一个希望是 是为了是我可以

成为一些灵感

的源泉 到

我 19 岁时

，我在 1986 年推出了自己的电视

节目

，并坚持不懈地

取得成功。起初

我对竞争感到紧张，

然后

我成为了自己的竞争对手，

每年都在提高标准

正如我所知道的

，这里的任何人听起来都很熟悉，

最终

我们确实登上了顶峰，我们在

那里呆了

25

年，奥普拉温弗瑞秀在

我们的时间段中排名第一 21

年，我不得不告诉你，我

对

那个水平非常满意 成功，但几年

前

我决定在某个时候

重新计算找到

新领域开辟新天地，所以我结束了节目

并在一年后推出了自己的奥普拉温弗瑞

网络

，几乎

所有媒体都推出了

宣称我的新企业是一次失败，不仅仅是

一次失败，而是

一次他们称之为大胆的

失败 自己发现，

去年这个

时候真的是

我职业生涯中

最糟糕

的时期 一定会绊倒，

因为

如果你不断地做我们所做的事情

，如果你不断地

把自己推

得更高，那么平均法则

更不用说伊卡洛斯的神话

预测你会在某个时候跌倒

，当你跌倒时，我 想让你知道这一点

记住

这一点没有失败

失败只是

生活试图将我们推向另一个

方向现在当你在

一个洞里时它看起来像

失败所以在过去的一年里我不得不用勺子

喂那些话 对我自己来说

，当你陷入困境时

，当那一刻到来时，

感觉一段时间真的没关系 给

自己

时间来哀悼你认为你

可能失去的东西，

但这是

从每一个错误中吸取教训的关键，因为前夕 你的

经历，尤其是

你的错误，

是为了欺骗你，迫使你

成为更

真实的自己，然后弄清楚下一步

正确的举动是什么，生活的关键

是培养一种内在的道德

情感gps，它可以告诉你

哪个 路要走，

但我发现生活的挑战

是建立一份简历，它不仅仅是

讲述你想成为什么的故事，而是一个

关于

你想成为谁的故事。

关于

你想要完成什么的故事，但为什么一个

故事不仅仅是一个

头衔和职位的集合，而是一个

真正

关于你的目的的故事，因为当你

不可避免地绊倒并发现自己

陷入困境时，这个故事

会让你摆脱困境 你的真正

使命是什么 你的佛法是什么 你

对我的目的是什么 1994 年

我采访了一个小女孩

，她决定收集零钱

以帮助

其他有需要的人 她提出了一个发现

一千美元一个人，我

想如果那个

拿着水桶和一颗大心脏的小女孩能做到

这一点，我想知道我能做什么，

所以我要求我们的观众拿起

他们自己的

零钱收藏，并在一个

仅仅一个月，

我们就筹集了超过 300 万

美元

，用于将美国

每个州的一名学生送到

大学

，我们一起

在 12 个不同的国家建造了 55 所学校，并修复了

近 300

所被毁坏的房屋 飓风丽塔

和卡特里娜飓风，

所以天使网络我已经播出

了很长时间，但实际上是天使网络

专注于我的内部 GPS，

它帮助我决定

我不只是

每天都在电视上，而是

我的节目的目标 我的采访 我的事业

我的慈善事业 所有这一切

我可能追求

的一切都是为了清楚地表明

，将我们团结在一起的东西

最终

比任何分离的东西都更具救赎性和吸引力 测试我，因为

对我来说很清楚

，我想让你知道

，一开始并不总是很清楚，因为正如我所说，

我从 19 岁开始就在电视上，

但在 94 岁左右我真的很清楚，所以

不要' 不要指望

一下子就明白你的目的，

但我清楚的是，

我来到地球上是为了使用电视，而

不是被它

用来使用电视来照亮

我们更好的天使的超然力量，

所以 这个天使网络不仅

改变了受

帮助者的生活，还改变了帮助者的生活

，

它提醒我们，无论我们是谁，我们

长什么样，或者我们相信什么，

这都是可能的，而且 更重要的是

，在我们的政治体系和媒体中，

为了共同的目标和共同的努力

[音乐] 团结起来变得强大，

我们经常看到

一个两极分化的国家的反映

知道真相

我们都知道，我们比

在华盛顿

和 24 小时有线新闻周期中反复出现的囊肿和

悲观主义要好。

第二修正案

，并减少

剥夺我们孩子的暴力，

我们

理解大多数美国人相信居住在这个国家的 1200 万无证移民有一条明确的

公民身份之路，

因为这

既可以

执行我们的法律，又可以同时执行。

时间拥抱自由女神像上的文字，这些文字

欢迎了

几代拥挤的群众来到我们的

海岸

很幸运有

机会就读这所著名的学校，

你现在有机会打赌 r 你

的生活 你的

邻居的生活 以及我们国家的生活 当

你这样做的时候

让我告诉你我确信

那是你的故事变得非常好的时候

玛雅安杰卢总是说当你学习时

教你当你得到的时候

我的朋友们 是什么赋予了你的故事

目的和意义，所以你们都有

能力

以自己的方式发展自己的

天使网络

，这样做你的班级将

拥有比历史上任何其他一代人更多的影响力

和赋权工具

一个模拟世界

我很幸运拥有一个平台，该平台在

其鼎盛时期

每天可以吸引近 2000 万观众，

现在在一个由 twitter、

facebook、youtube 和 tumblr 组成的世界里，

你可以在几秒钟内达到数十亿，

我知道你们都比

大多数人更了解真实 进步

需要

真实的诚实方式，

最重要的是

同理心

我们大多数人的人类经验有一个共同点

我告诉你我们

不想分裂

我们想要什么

我在每次采访中发现的共同点

是我们想要被验证 我们想要被

理解

我已经

在我的职业生涯中完成了超过 35 000 次采访，

一旦相机关闭，

每个人都会转向我，

不可避免地以他们自己的方式

问这个问题，好吧

[音乐]

我从布什总统那里听到的

，我从奥巴马总统那里听到

的 我从英雄和

家庭主妇那里听说过 我从

犯罪的受害者和肇事者

那里听说过 我什至从碧昂丝和

她所有的碧昂丝那里听到

过

每次相遇的争论每次交流我都会

告诉你

他们都想知道一

件事是你听到了

吗你看到我做了我

所说的对你来说意味着什么

所以无论你称之为灵魂或精神还是

h 更高的自

智我知道这在你们每个人的内心都有一盏灯

照亮你的人性

如果你让它无论你在路上遇到什么挑战

、挫折或失望

你都会找到真正的成功和幸福

如果你只有一个目标，那真的只有一个目标

，那

就是实现

你

作为一个人的最高最真实的表达你想

通过使用你的能量

来

提升你的家人和你周围的人来最大化你的人性

神学家霍华德·瑟曼说得最好，

他说不要问自己这个

世界

需要什么问问自己是什么让你

活过来然后

去做，因为这个世界需要的

是那些不时活过来的人

你可能会绊倒

你会跌倒 一定要相信这一点，

毫无疑问你会有问题

，你会对你的道路产生怀疑，

但我知道如果你愿意

倾听并被那个仍然很小的声音引导

那是你自己的全球定位系统

，找出是什么让你活着

只有

这三个我可以做十个我可以做一个

完整的生活课

但是

如果你让他们

首先知道

你是

谁知道你能回答

这个问题

我是谁我做什么 想

知道我到底是谁 我的答案是我是上帝的

孩子

并理解

，因为我与

所有可能的源头相连，所以

对我

来说，这就是我是谁，

我想要什么 做一个标记或

有一条腿 对我来说，这个问题的答案是

我想要实现我作为一个人的最高

最真实的表达

我想要

实现创造者在梦想

组成我的细胞时所梦想的承诺我想要什么

你必须有一些

即使你不知道你的生活计划

你必须有一个

你选择去的方向

我所学到的是对生活的一个很好的

隐喻

你想坐在自己的驾驶座上

生活，因为如果你不是，

生活会驱使

你如此了解

你在这个空间和时间

中的真实身份，我们体现这是第一

你想要什么你是

第二你必须

找到一种方式为

[音乐]

马丁路德金服务 说不是

每个人都能成名，但每个人都

可以成为伟大，因为伟大

取决于服务现在我们生活在一个

每个人都想成名

的世界里，我们钦佩人们只是

因为成名我们认为出名

会给我们带来价值，事实就是一切 的 这

将在三年后消失，你

将无法命名

亚特兰大的家庭主妇，真正的事实

是服务

和意义服务，你

为你的

服务带来的意义是持久的，所以

无论你 职业或工作或

才能或礼物是我们今天的获奖者

在

[音乐]

显然相反的领域获得博士学位 艾滋病毒和艾滋病

以及口语，但他们

的共同点

是使用

口语服务，用你的知识为社区和世界服务

以及

有关艾滋病毒和艾滋病以及

为世界服务的药物的信息，如果你看看世界

上所有最

成功的人，

无论他们是否知道，

他们都有那种服务范式，

每个人都在谈论

马克扎克伯格和 ipo

[音乐]

服务杰伊 -z 多年来

通过歌曲向人们提供说唱服务，

我真的很高兴能上电视，

人们会停下来说哦，你在电视上

是的，我在电视上

我喜欢看电视，这是一份不错的工作

，大约在 1993 年左右我

从 spelman 获得荣誉博士学位，

所以我不知道

这是否与此有关。我认为

自己是温弗瑞博士

，所以我回去了 我仔细看了

看我

在电视上所做的事情，并

决定我不再只是在

电视上，

而是将电视

作为一个平台，作为一种向善的力量，

而不是被使用 通过电视，我会告诉

你，

我决定对

我在电视上的运营方式进行重大改变，

使用电视作为

服务

改变了我的职业生涯，

通过医学服务通过

艺术成倍增长，使用

你生产的任何产品

作为回馈的方式

当你将你选择做的任何事情的范式转变

为服务并为成功带来意义时

，

我向世界保证我会保证你会

跟随你服务和意义

等于成功，这是第二

个第三个它是如此简单但如此艰难

总是做正确的

事 是优秀的

人们注意到 想想你是如何注意到

你去 taco bell 有人给你

额外的餐巾纸和一些酱汁

你注意到你想回到那

个人

因为即使在 taco bell 卓越

表现自己是优秀的

卓越是你的品牌

每个人都在谈论建立一个品牌

我什至不知道

当人们说你是一个品牌我会

说不我只是奥普拉

我现在认识到的是我

在每一个例子中的每一个选择

做正确的

事

和优秀的事情的每一次经历都是

创造品牌的原因，我

知道，当你优秀时，你会

变得令人难忘，

人们会记住你，无论是什么，你都会脱颖而出，

你会成为一个令人难忘的女人，

这就是 我们都希望

我们想要令人难忘而不是令人难忘，

所以

即使没有人知道你在做正确的事情，做正确的

事情

也会永远给你带来正确的事情

我向你保证 为什么因为

运动第三定律总是

对每一个动作都起作用，

所以在我们所有的生活中都会有一个平等和相反的反应，

你只需要做正确的事情，

即使人们不这样做，正确的事情也会跟着你

支持它我记得

很多次在我的节目中有很多

你们从未看过的节目，

你们没有看到的原因是

因为我

得到了最后一票，我记得

2010 年我的团队在电视上最努力的团队

完成了这次

采访 一个女人，

她白天是主日学校老师，

晚上是性

瘾者 向我们展示

我与一位女士坐下来进行采访的

所有内容

，在采访过程中，

我说

你为什么要这样做，她说哦，我

想帮助

人们我想讲述我的故事，我

想帮助人们 我说你有

孩子她说有

我有一个 10 岁的儿子，我当时就知道

这永远不会出现，

所以我们停播了，我对

那位女士说我们不打算播出那个节目

，她说为什么我的制片人说

为什么她 知道她正在被拍摄 她

知道她在说什么 她知道我

说

了什么 因为她的儿子永远无法克服它

她的儿子永远无法克服

它 对我来说

不值得评分 不值得我知道评分

有一个十岁的男孩

，因为他的母亲

参加了奥普拉温弗瑞的节目

并告诉她所有的生意你

做正确的事情，即使其他人

认为它可能不是而且经常

当你决定做正确的事情时，他被摧毁了

立即你面临

质疑

是正确的事情是

正确的决定我不知道是

正确的事情

你总是知道这是正确的事情

当最终

有和平你会

因为知道你而得到和平的回报 做了

正确的事

[音乐]

你