COLES NOTES :: Oprah Winfrey and her team of teachers Deepak Chopra, Iyanla Vanzant, Tony Robbins and TD Jakes touched down in Toronto for a global broadcast of the OWN show, Lifeclass, a production that, as executive producer Sheri Salata told the 9,000 in attendance at the Metro Toronto Convention Center Monday night, represents what the network itself is all about.
Couldn’t make it? TheGayGuideNetwork attended class and we never mind sharing our notes (as long as you carry our books home from school):
- “We get instruction (instinct, guidance) and then we question it with our human-ness, as if our instruciton would steer us wrong.”
- “If you don’t have a vision (pulling you forward) you will be stuck in what you know, and what you know is what you have already seen.”
- “We (tend to) adjust our vision of our lives to the levels of deficiencies present. We adjust, for example, to what someone else does or says. How many life expectations and goals are what other people tell us is for us? You vision is for you – and not everyone will see it. Never judge your clarity on how other people respond. Your vision doesn’t have to be clear to others.”
- “We make up our own deficiencies too. What are you making up about yourself and holding yourself to. Too old, too tired, too…“
- “If you get a vision, you also get given provisions.”
- “Affirm your vision every day. Say ‘I am…’ every day. Whatever you attach to ‘I am…’ you become. I am broke, I am single, I am confused…
- “Help yourself for you. Be rich for you, be at peace for you, be happy for you.”
- “Be still and listen for the instruction instead of begging for the direction.”
- “Universal law doesn’t change just because you’re ignorant to it.”
Next: Tony Robbins
- “Every problem has a spiritual solution.”
- “Become aware of the centre space of who you really are.”
- “Your soul has the wisdom of the universe and the power and the energy.”
- “At the core of our being is infinite potential.”
- “Your true self is the self of the universe.”
- “Inspiration means in spirit.”
- (When turning into a hot glue gun mess:) “STOP: Stop. Take breath. Observe (your own body and feelings). Proceed (with kindness, love, joy).”
- “Be an agent of transformation.”
Next: Iyanla Vanzant
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