I have been taping Oprah ever since we got a DVR, so I haven't missed an episode for... a while. I haven't watched every single one - just the ones that are interesting to me. I watched her last show the day after it aired and don't have the heart to delete it. I don't know if you had the opportunity to watch it, but it was AMAZING. I cried almost the whole way through the show. I want to share some of her words with you now. You all know my feeling about having a calling in life, and her words just confirm my own beliefs.
"What I knew for sure from this experience with you is that we are all called. Everybody has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it. Every time we have seen a person on this stage who is a success in their life, they spoke of the job, and they spoke of the juice that they receive from doing what they knew they were meant to be doing. We saw it in the volunteers who rocked abandoned babies in Atlanta. We saw it with those lovely pie ladies from Cape Cod making those delicious potpies. ... We saw it every time Tina Turner, Celine, Bocelli or Lady Gaga lit up the stage with their passion. Because that is what a calling is. It lights you up and it lets you know that you are exactly where you're supposed to be, doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing. And that is what I want for all of you and hope that you will take from this show. To live from the heart of yourself. You have to make a living; I understand that. But you also have to know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world."
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