WATCH THIS EVERY DAY - Motivational Speech By Oprah Winfrey [YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS]

i always understood that there really was no difference between me and the audience at times i might have had better shoes but at the core the core of of what really matters that we are the same and 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 that 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 then that's 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 you know everyone to reach everyone and and there's no way that you wouldn't because that's that's what i truly feel 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 stuff 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 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 not one experience not one encounter not one crisis not one joyful thing that hasn't happened just to make you better and help you rise every single thing you're calling in whether you know it or not when you figure out that you are calling it in when you actually start meditating or praying or doing

or having a spiritual practice which is the number one thing you need if you want to be successful in the world you need something that gives back and nourishes you regardless of what you call that you need to you need to fill your cup so that you can be so full your cup runneth over and you have enough to give to other people if you don't fill your cup you end up dried up you end up tired exhausted and don't have enough to give to other people you end up resentful every time somebody asks you

because your cup is empty and now they want some of yours [Music] so your number one job your number one job is to fill your cup and make yourself whole so for me the foundational base of empowerment of entrepreneurship of any kind of engagement the foundational base of my success of my well-being my wholeness my everything is knowing who i am and where i come from [Applause] in my living room right now is a painting that i've owned now for 30 years you can google it it's called to the highest bidder and it's at the

center of my house and it's at the center of my house because it actually is symbolic of the foundation of not the house but the foundation for my life the painting is by harry rosalind who was a genre painter painter in the early 20th late 19th century and the painting's over six feet tall and it shows a slave woman on the auction block holding her daughter's hand and i cannot come in the door my front door or i cannot leave without passing that painting i am reminded of where i come from every day of my

life and i am reminded because i never want to forget it and in my library i have a framed list of enslaved african-american people remember i showed you um who were held in bondage on various plantations listed in the ledgers alongside the cows and the horses and the buggies and the other property and i pass this list every day and often i stop in front of it and just speak their names out loud and their ages jonas 11 years old 500 sarah 41 years old 900. elizabeth 57 800 and i forced myself to consider the

absurdity and the obscenity of prices being affixed to each one should they be placed up for sale and i sometimes just pause before them with a prayer particularly before i have to make a big decision about one of my companies or whether i move forward or whether i stay still it reminds me speaking those names out loud not only of where i've come from but how far i have to go because of them and it reminds me that i am never alone it reminds me of what i've come through to get through i say to

the my girls all of the time that your real work is to figure out where your power base is and to work on the alignment of your personality your gifts that you have to give with the real reason why you're here that's that's the number one thing you have to do is to work on yourself and to fill your self up and keep your cup full keep yourself full now i used to be afraid of that i used to be afraid particularly from people who say oh she said she's still fella she's so close and

now i embrace it i i consider it a compliment that i am full of myself because you only when you're full i'm full i'm overflowing my cup run is over i have so much i have so much to offer and so much to give and i am not afraid of honoring myself you know it's miraculous when you think about it everybody has a different talent and the reason we're all so messed up is because you're looking at everybody else's talent and wishing you had some of their talent all the energy that you spend thinking about

wishing about being jealous of envious of anybody else is energy that you're not only putting out is going to come back to you negatively but you're taking that away from you all your energy should be forced on what do i have to offer what do i have to give how can i be used in service because dr king's message of not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service and there is not a job in here that you can do that you don't switch the paradigm to service and

not make that job more fulfilling i don't care what the job is if you say i'm a singer i'm a dancer i'm an artist i'm a teacher i'm a nurse i'm a doctor i'm a janitor i'm a i'm a clerk if you say if i look at this from how do i use this in service to something bigger than myself it no longer becomes a job it becomes an offering to the world the first law is the third law of motion in physics which says for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction and we

showed that very beautifully in the color purple when messily says to mister everything you even try to do to me is already done to you that is not just a rhetorical saying that is law that is newton's third law of motion in physics which says everything that goes out is coming back it's just like everything that goes up is coming down may take a long time to come down is coming down everything that goes out is coming back it's coming back so to answer the power of manifestation and meditation what meditation does is sync you

up with the source what meditation does is allows you to literally tap into the power that created you so that you are in alignment with that and so when you carry that out into the world everything that you do comes from the center of that alignment that's coming from the source that we call god we call divine energy divine intelligence whatever name you want to give it we call life when you are synced up with life life just gives to you [Music] you