Oprah's Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 6 Mastering the Art of Gratitude

July 15, 2012

Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 6 Mastering the Art of Gratitude

If you concentrate on what you have, you will always have more.
If you go through the day looking for those 5 things, you will notice more what is going right, it will align you!
Gratitude helps us see our life as a gift
Look for the blessings
Gratitude can help heal heartache and pain.
Gratitude can change your world, where there is appreciation there will be duplication.
Prayer is not your bargaining chip with God, Prayer is to align yourself with the divine.
People are addicted to problems, problems are gifts that make us dig deeper and figure out who we are made for and what we are responsible to give back.
Life happens not to me but life happens for me.
Change your expectation for appreciation and your world champs instantly.
Whatever I feed will grow.
Your inner vision makes you special
Taking the time to list things you are grateful for increases the gratitude.
If you focus on what you don’t have what you don’t have you will never have enough!
If the only prayer you say is thank you, that will be enough.
If you are thankful for what you have, you will always have more.
The past is gone, the future is not here and now is what you have!
Gratitude- reconnecting to the divine
Be grateful for every life stop.
Where there is appreciation, there will be duplication.
Gratitude opens the door to abundance consciousness.
Prayer is not your bargaining chip with God.
Say to yourself: Thank you God for making me just as I am.
Growth requires learning from painful experiences by recognizing the role we have played.
God loves us through people.
Fear is why we don’t take action Anger is why we get stuck.
We define ourselves by only one aspect, it’s a mistake you are more than what happens to you.
Stop focusing on what you lost and concentrate on what you can give.
Transcendence is the ability to move passed labels, limitations or the facts and be the fullness of yourself, beyond all those.
When you’re giver, you don’t have to worry about receiving.
Life happens not to me but for me.
When your heart opens, you will see abundance around you, no matter your circumstances.
Change your expectation to appreciation and your world changes instantly.
If you argue for your limitations you will have more of them.
Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed into the future.
Whatever you’re struggling with is a reminder for you to find true purpose in your lifetime.
How can you free other unless you free yourself gratitude is a state of being.
Be mindful that who you are matters and what you do matters.
Tell the truth to yourself about yourself.