Saturday, March 19, 2011

Where is your Ah Ha! moment?

I watch Oprah. I don't watch it daily. It records and I pick and choose the episodes I think will be interesting. Her interviews often have me in a fit of tears, crying like my puppy was ran over and someone poured lemon juice in my corrugated cardboard paper cut. However, today I was actually not at work, and after putzing around doing laundry and cleaning I sat down for lunch and found Oprah's Master Class program on On Demand. I know she grew up poor, in the south, in the 50's and was sexually abused. Other than that I don't know much about her history so when I saw she had an self interview on this particular program I thought it would be interesting to watch. A lot of people don't like her because they think she thinks all problems can be fixed with a hug and a good coffee talk. Sometimes her "spiritual" side is a little much for me as well. However, she made this statement in the beginning of her interview that had ME saying Ah Ha! and I spent ten minutes rewinding and playing so I could write it down. It's so beautiful I could lose it right now...

"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 puts you at your own, pitiful, meager, little will; and everything is left up to you. And you can't do it. You can not survive in this world by yourself. You're not big enough to do it. I'm not big enough to do it. Nobody is 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 that wanted to have a child. That that egg was hit by that particular sperm in that particular moment and you were created. Wow. How amazing is that? Of all the 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 the circumstances that had to figure and reconfigure themselves, all the questions that we don't have answers to...You have to know this: the fact that I am here matters. The fact that you are here matters. It was no accident. None of us are."

I could slap people that tell me, "everything happens for a reason". I am an educated individual. I know that in my heart to be true, but I am not interested in hearing it from anyone else. This quote says the same thing, but in a way that makes more sense. I'm not interested in preaching about Oprah, it just hit me like a wall. I couldn't imagine holding back something I felt to be so profound.


FYI I should be getting paid for my mad marketing skills. Do you hear that Oprah?!

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