ane_chapter9_transcript奥普拉与艾克哈特

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Okay. Hi, everybody. Welcome to class number nine of our New Earth Web series. We are here with author Eckhart Tolle. Number nine—we're counting down. We're down to the last two chapters of our book, and it is my most sincere hope that all of our classes so far have been leading you to find more purpose and enjoy in your own lives. And tonight's class, tonight's lesson is really about bringing clarity to finding your inner purpose. So I think this is my most exciting chapter of all. I know I say that every chapter. I didn't say that after last chapter, and I'll tell you why in a few moments, but before we begin the class, I'm going to let you lead us in our moments of silence, or moment of silence today.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Good. So we are already familiar with the silence that you start with. And this time I would like to use a very short, very powerful line from the Old Testament. And I believe that this will be especially helpful for those Christians who are not quite comfortable with silence, and feel that somehow silence is not compatible with Christianity or Christian teachings, which is not the case at all. Perhaps it has been overlooked in the past couple centuries in Christianity, but it is certainly compatible. And so this is one of my favorite lines from the Old Testament, and that can take us very powerfully into stillness. And this line is: "Be still and know that I am God." Meaning, God is found precisely in that inner stillness; through the realm of inner stillness that you can reach what we call God, but which nobody can understand through the mind. It's the mystery. The mystery which you cannot really explain or name, which we call God, is the depth of that. We touch that when we go into stillness. So this beautiful line points to that inner experience. So I'll say it again, and when I've said it, you just become still for a moment. "Be still and know that I am God."

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): I love that. That's one of my favorite Bible passages. That and "Lead me to the rock that is higher than I."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Well, today—tonight—we're discussing Chapter 9, your inner purpose. Finding your purposes is what I believe we're all put on the planet to do. So many people spend their lives trying to figure out, "What job, what job to do, what to do, what to do, what to do?" I think when you figure out what your purpose is and you align the outer purpose with the inner purpose, then the job really doesn't matter, right?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Very true.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's the essence of what you're saying in this chapter. Let us begin, page 257. "As soon as you arise above mere survival, the question of meaning and purpose becomes of Copyright 2008 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Prepared by PeopleSupport which takes sole responsibility for accuracy of transcription. No license is granted to the user of this material other than for research. User may not reproduce any printed copy of the material except for the user's personal or internal use and, in such case, only one copy may be printed, nor shall user use any material for commercial purposes or in any fashion that may infringe upon Harpo Productions, Inc.'s copyright or proprietary interests in the material.

paramount importance in your life. Many people feel caught up in the routines of daily living," you say, "that seem to deprive their life of significance. Some believe life is passing them by or has passed them by already. Others feel severely restricted by the demands of their job and supporting a family. ... Some are consumed by … stress … lost in frantic doing. … Many people long for the freedom and expansion that prosperity promises. Others already enjoy the freedom that comes with prosperity and discover that even that is not enough to endow their lives with meaning. There is no substitute for finding true purpose." So how do we do it?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Now, what you just read basically, of course, means that many people spend their lives in a state of almost permanent dissatisfaction.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Unfortunately. So they may be looking for some purpose, or they may have given up hope that there is some purpose for them, and they're just surviving or making a living.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Or caught up in the doing.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Caught up in the doing, in the stress of it.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And so, usually, when we talk about purpose, when people talk about purpose, they think of purpose in terms of future. "Where am I going, what am I supposed to do, what's the direction I'm going in, what is my goal, the goal I want to achieve?" And that, of course, is there, it has its place, but I call that the outer purpose. More fundamental than the outer purpose is what people usually overlook, and that is the realization that what matters most is finding your inner purpose. Now, to most people that initially doesn't mean anything, inner purpose.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And this is why I explain it briefly in the dialogue that is there in that chapter where somebody asks about, "I want to know what my purpose is," and I tell that person, "Your purpose is to be here at this moment and asking that question because this is where you are."

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): So inner purpose is aligning your life fully with the present moment. So that you are no longer out of alignment with the present moment, which leads to the state of dissatisfaction that we talked about that is the reality for many people. So you have to go, first of all, beyond the state of dissatisfaction that is so many people's reality.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): But you cannot go beyond the state of dissatisfaction through some future goal that says, "One day I would like to be in a state of fulfillment or satisfaction." No. You have to enter the state of fulfillment and satisfaction by becoming one internally with the present moment. And your purpose then—your inner purpose—is that alignment with where you are right now, to be totally where you are and whatever you are doing, even if it doesn't look like your—the life purpose for—you want for the next 30 years. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Whatever you doing now, to be total in doing it. No matter what it is, to be true to life by being true to this moment.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah. As you say on page 271, "There is always only this one step, and so you give it your fullest attention. This doesn't mean that you don't know where you're going; it just means that the step you're taking right now is primary, the destination secondary. And what you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step." I love this so much because I discovered this when I was in the third grade. I couldn't articulate it this way in the third grade. When I was in the third grade, I turned in a book report early in Ms. Driver's class. And the reaction I got from my third grade teacher taught me—or informed me—that when you do your best, when you do your best in any given moment, that is well received because my third grade teacher told all the other teachers in the teachers' lounge, and I became known as this kid who really loved to read. And that's why we're sitting here today because of that. But I learned in the third grade, this whole process of whatever you're doing in any given moment, if you do it your best, it leads you to the next best moment. So you don't have to worry about what's the next moment coming if you only do your best in this moment.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): That's right. Because when the next moment comes, it comes as this moment.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): The future, you never experience the future as the future, you experience the future when it comes as the now because that's all there is.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's all there ever is.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And that's an amazing realization for people to realize life is always just this. It's always the now.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah, it's interesting because last week we had Nick from the Bodhi Tree, and you said, and when Nick was up talking about, he had to, "Well, you have to worry about your bills," and you said, "Well, you don't have to worry about your bills."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): You have to pay your bills.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You have to pay your bills, but you don't have to worry about paying your bills. I don't know about the rest of you, but that lesson has sort of been with me all week. So anytime I would find myself in the mind worrying about something, I go, "I don't have to worry about this. I can either figure out what to do about it or release that thought."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): So if the bill is here but the money is not there right now, "I can't do anything," put it aside, and then… OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Put it aside.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): See, "What action can I take now?" And then you do whatever action you can take now. If you can't take any action, then you just be with it.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah, but I love that when I read that, "There is always only this one step." Until you give this one step your fullest attention, that's in middle of page 271, everybody, "and this doesn't mean you don't know where you're going; it just means that this step is primary, the destination is secondary." And what happens is most people are living their lives as though the destination, the end is what it's all about.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. As if the end were more important than now.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Than the means.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): The means. And so the means and the end are, however, are one.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): So if there's dissatisfaction and a denial of the present moment, which is a denial of life.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE):

You're not honoring life if you don't honor this moment by being open to this moment, then that is how you will experience the future because the future is no more than an extension of now.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right. You also say on page 271, "The unconscious assumption behind all such action is that success is a future event, and that the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one." You say that. "Let's say you're a businessperson and after two years of stress and strain you finally manage to come out with a product, a service that sells well and makes money. Success? In conventional terms, yes. In reality, you spent two years polluting your body as well as the earth with negative energy," you made everybody crazy. We don't say that, but you made everybody and everybody around you crazy and affected others you didn't even know. "The unconscious assumption behind all of this action is that success is a future event, and that the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness, neither will the end." So whatever the end result is, it's going to carry the energy of what it took to get there. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, that's it, yes, yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's exciting.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. And that means you actually, you determine what kind of future you're going to experience by deciding to be totally aligned with the present moment.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's right. It's your state of conscious now that will determine whatever is manifested in the future. And when that happens, that will just be now.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): I got that. I got that very much. Okay. So let's continue with this lesson before we go to Ivy a little bit. You say "The true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level." To me, that's the essence of what this book is all about. Everybody who's searching and waiting for answers and looking for it on the outer level: "It does not concern what you do, but what you are—that is to say, your state of consciousness. So the most important thing to realize is this: Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary, outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary." Do you want to elaborate on that?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): So once you realize that the primary purpose of your life is the inner—and this is what becomes the main purpose—then the secondary purpose, the outer purpose falls into place. By being true to life and being true to now, life will bring to you whatever is most appropriate as far as your inner purpose is concerned. Life will become helpful. Suddenly, sometimes the helpful idea comes from within, a sudden realization. "Oh, this is what I want to do; this is what I have to do." But the realization only came because you were aligned with the present moment.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): So let's say this. Everybody—everybody who is born is alive and breathing—has an inner purpose.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. The inner purpose is the same for all of humanity, which is being aligned with life, saying yes to life by saying yes to now. Aligned with the power of the present moment, which is the power of life. That's everybody's purpose. Then the outer purpose varies from person to person. How that translates into what you do varies from person to person. And even in one lifetime it can vary. You may do—you have a certain outer purpose for 10 or 20 years of your life, and suddenly it changes completely. So that varies and is subject to time. It doesn't necessarily last you a whole lifetime, whatever you do. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You say, "Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation of fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success. Without that alignment, you can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, that is you're struggling to make it, you're struggling and fighting, and basically you're making—you're fighting against life or the world. Me against the universe is what the ego, how the ego sees it. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And isn't it sort of like swimming upstream? I always compare it to swimming upstream when you're, like, going against the grain of your life. There's a flow to all of our lives. And if you are suffering, if you are in pain, if you can't figure out what it is you're supposed to

do, if you're worried, worried, worried all the time, it is because you're going against the flow or the grain of your life. Means you're going against inner purpose.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That when you align with inner purpose, everything flows. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And in negative state, whenever negativity arises and you dwell in negative inner states, then you are not going with the flow of life. You're against the flow of life. And then you experience life as not helpful. You experience life as, even as, hostile because you're in a state of inner denial. You're in a state of negativity, you're not open to life.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Okay, I got that. I really got that. I really got that. Another friend of mine, a teacher who wrote a book called Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav, calls it, says, "When the personality or ego comes to serve the energy of the soul," or consciousness, we've been calling it that. "When the personality comes to serve the energy of the soul, that is authentic empowerment." I take that to mean, from the Seat of the Soul, that when you align your personality or use your personality to serve the inner purpose—to serve the soul or the consciousness—then you are your most powerful in the world.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, yes. And then you're not run by the mind anymore because the mind becomes the servant of what I sometimes call awareness or presence. The mind then serves something greater than itself, which is a consciousness.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You say on page 259, "Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you are awake you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life. Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life," love this everybody, "instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. And then the mind is quite helpful. So the mind can be used for many wonderful things.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): When it no longer controls you.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): I got it. So in essence, our goal on earth as human beings—these spiritual beings in the body, higher consciousness inside this flesh-filled membranous whatever, body—our goal is to allow the light of inner purpose or consciousness to come through.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Everything that we do.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. This is why we're here, and that is then also the entire universe is—the purpose of the universe, one could say, is the flowering of consciousness.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): It moves toward more and more consciousness. So we then become bringers of that, which is why we're here. So then the consciousness—you could call it the light, the light of the source, the light of God—comes through the human form.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's right. And so when you allow the light of God—the light of consciousness—to come through you, and it is allowed to fuel whatever it is you do, whatever it is you do will be fueled with a spiritual power that will allow you to be the best at what you do. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. And then that also means that what you do is not of primary importance, but how you do what you do is what matters.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): How you do it.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): How you do it. And you could be doing something that the world regard as relatively insignificant and yet make an enormous difference to the consciousness of the planet.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Ivy is Skyping us from her living room in Richmond, Virginia. Hi, Ivy. I here you have a question about one of my favorite quotes. Go ahead, what is the question?

IVY: Yeah, well, my question deals with trying to find a career path that merges your inner purpose with outer purpose. And on the top of page 274, you say, Eckhart says, "There may be a period of insecurity and uncertainty." And he goes on to say that, if "you are able to live with uncertainty, even

enjoy it … you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life." And my question is this: I'm 26 years old, and the past few months I've tried to find a career path that merges my inner purpose with my outer purpose and haven't really been able to do so. I began to think a lot about my life's purpose and question whether or not I would ever find a career that merged my life's work with something I was passionate about. So my question really is twofold. The first is how should I approach finding a career that is fulfilling but doesn't strengthen my ego. And secondly, and perhaps a more pressing question for me, is how do I do this while also becoming comfortable and embracing the uncertainty that's defining my life right now?

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Good questions.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. So to what extent have you become successful in embracing and accepting this time of your life that you don't know yet what your purpose is, to what extent are you able to say, "Well, can I become comfortable with not knowing?" Have you able to do that?

IVY: I, there are periods where I've been able to, but mostly it's just a lot of thinking and feeling very uncomfortable about not knowing.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, and often the uncomfortableness are certain thoughts that go through your mind that tell you it's not okay to be in this state. And then you have certain emotions, which are the body's reaction to those thoughts. So when these thoughts arise, they tell you, "It's not okay. The way you are right now is not okay." Realize that these are thoughts that arise in your mind, conditioned by the surrounding culture and so on, and you don't necessarily need to believe in each thought that comes and tells you it's not okay not to know what to do. Life is an adventure. It's not a packaged tour when you travel. You can take a packaged tour, and everything is already planned—there's no uncertainty and everywhere you go to a nice hotel in an exotic country, but you won't even know it's exotic because your hotel room is the same as every other hotel room. You're totally—everything is planned, you know beforehand where you're going to be in 10 days time exactly. That's not an adventure, and it's unlikely that you are going to evolve internally through a trip like that. But if you went into a true trip into some exotic country, thrown back on your own resources, then you would encounter true adventure. And you would probably not be the same person when you come back. Why not? Because we're constantly faced with uncertainty. And if you're able to accept it, you can actually enjoy the adventure. If you cannot accept, it's—I'm giving this analogy of a trip because life is a journey.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And so the person who cannot enjoy the uncertainty when adventure comes is going to be in a continuous state of negativity, of fear. "I don't want to be here. I'd rather be at home." So realize that life is an adventure, and part of the adventure of life is being in that state that you are in now. If everything were

already clear to you now, everything were already mapped out, there would be no evolution of yourself as a human being.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And may I say, Ivy, that is part of what being 26 is all about. That's what 26 is. You're trying to figure it out. That is…

IVY: Yeah.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That is what the 20s are for.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, and another very helpful thing to remember is one of the most wonderful things in your period of life is to make mistakes. Because mistakes means you realize, "Oh, that's not—that wasn't my purpose."

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And so you are a little bit closer to your true purpose, and then perhaps you think, "Oh, maybe that is my purpose," and then you, after a while you realize, "No, that's not." It's very helpful to make mistakes because gradually you begin to realize what it is that is right for you.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah. And many times as Eckhart says in this chapter, Ivy, and you will find in your 20s, the 20s are about figuring out where you want to be, and there's this frustration. That's why they call that show The Young and the Restless because there's restlessness about it. And I know that because I've kept journals since I was 15. In my 20s I'm just restless, restless, restless. And when I was your age, 26, I was an anchorwoman on television doing the evening news. I hated it every single day. And what I now realize, and even then, my displeasure with being in that place every day was really informing me what I needed to do. What I needed to do was to get out of that space. And many times, being in a space that you can clearly identify as, "This is—I do not want to do this." I want to be in television, I knew, but I do not want to do this. And, you know, and I had my father and everybody around saying, "You're going to give up that job in television?" I knew I could not do that. News felt exploitive to me. So, many times if you're in a position where you know what you don't want to do, isn't that also helpful, Eckhart?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Oh, yes, yes. For a while, I thought my life purpose was to an academic at university. And then come to realization after years of spending time working hard to become a professor, I realized that's not my life purpose at all. But I had to go through it.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Didn't you give up a promising career as an academia?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. Yes. I gave up the PhD, I gave up the promising career, and my relatives, my mother thought I was insane to give that up, but I knew this is what I had to do. It was so clear; there was no doubt about it anymore. For a little while there was doubt, and then the realization was so strong, I had to walk out of there. And that led to a period of uncertainty for a few years. I didn't know, what am I supposed to with my life? Here I am, I was just barely managing to survive, and gradually, I lived, but I was not unhappy. I was happy with the present moment then already. Then, gradually, something evolved; people started asking me questions. People that I met casually in parks, casually, and gradually, kind of spiritual teaching started to happen. And after a little while when somebody called me for the first time, "Oh, you're a spiritual teacher." It's, "Oh, that's what I am." And so the purpose came by itself. It came just out of that state of just being with what is and not being unhappy with not knowing. Being at ease with not knowing. Then it's much more likely to come to you when you're at ease with not knowing. So the question that you can ask yourself, "Can I be at ease with not knowing?"

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): With not knowing. This is what you say on 274 that Ivy had mentioned earlier, "You become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life."

And it means when you become comfortable with uncertainty, it means "fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change." That's the big thing.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Because as long as you are afraid, you cannot allow the energy of what is supposed to happen to come into your life. As long as you're afraid, right? Fear blocks that.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, that's right, yes. Yes. So be alert and watch your mind to see what kind of thoughts it produces. There also, there may be the emotion of fear, as Oprah says, arising occasionally, associated with a thought.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Like, "What's going to happen to me?"

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. Because the mind wants to know what the future is going to bring up. But how dread life would be—how dreadfully boring it would be—if you knew already what's going to happen.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Well, part of that is because, too, people get afraid, because of, again, what Nick said—Nick is our spiritual teacher this week—because of what Nick said last week about worrying about your bills because you're living outside yourself, you're creating more debt, creating more debt, creating more debt, allowing yourself to be—to operate from the thinking mind. At the time that you made these decisions for yourself, you were living on and practically, you said, at the poverty level.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, yes. And so you survive somehow. You make it. One more question before you go, is there anything in your life that you truly enjoy? Are there certain things that you enjoy doing that may not be necessarily associated in your mind with career.

IVY: Not really, that I can think of. Nothing I can think of.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Okay, then what's left is for you to enjoy the present moment and make that your spiritual practice.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah.

IVY: Okay.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): But I thought you were saying earlier, Ivy, about, you know, trying to align your passion, what you love and getting paid for it. Isn't that what you were talking about earlier?

IVY: Yes. Well, something I was passionate about. To (inaudible) what I'm passionate about once I figure that out. I don't really know what that is right now.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah. Well, I will—to reiterate something that Eckhart was saying last week—it doesn't come out of your head. For everybody who's looking for that answer for the purpose of your life or what should I be doing, it does not come from your head. It's not something you're ever going to think up.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): No.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You don't think it. It comes from that space that we opened tonight's session with being still and knowing that I am God. Being still and allowing the presence of a universal energy—the presence of consciousness—to come through you in such a way that it's a feeling; it is a feeling. It is not something you're going to think up how to do it. And you will just, you will start to feel that, "I feel better doing this thing than I feel doing the other thing." It's a feeling that comes to you, not something that comes into your head, correct?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): That's right, yes. And you need to be careful that you are not in a state of dissatisfaction because when you're in dissatisfaction, the answer is not likely to come, neither from within, nor from without. So keep your inner space clear, aligned with now so that no negativity arises.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And then may I add, also, for you and everybody else who is trying to get this whole idea of purpose, some clarity about that. When you allow yourself to be still with it, you're not afraid of the uncertainty. The universe rises up to meet you. The world, Eckhart says in here,

I can't remember what page in this chapter, but he talks about how coincidences happen, you know. Little things and big things happen. So you then have to be alert and paying attention to your life so when the opening shows itself, you're ready.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. And that's much more likely to come when you're in a state of clarity aligned with now. Then the answer can come from within or the answer can come from without.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): As some chance encounter, something you see in the paper.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Or something you can't even think where it might come from. A synchronistic event, a coincidence.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right. It shows itself.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's right, in ways that you hadn't seen before. Thank you Ivy from Richmond, Virginia.

IVY: Thank you.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Thank you so much. So you say on 261, "While you are perhaps still waiting for something significant to happen to your life, you may not realize that the most significant thing that can happen to a human being has already happened within you: the beginning of the separation process of thinking and awareness."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Which is the awakening, which is another way of explaining what the term "awakening" means. That before your awareness—or your consciousness—was totally identified with thought processes, with thinking. But now, and this is the case for everybody who reads this book and finds it meaningful.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): It means, if you are reading this book and you find it meaningful—something within your responds—it means you have already begun to awaken.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): To awaken. Yeah.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): If you haven't, the book will be meaningless.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Got it, got it. You're saying, "As long as you are unaware of Being," on 263, "you will seek meaning only within dimension of doing," the dimension of doing, "and the future, that is to say, the dimension of time. And whatever meaning or fulfillment you find will dissolve. ... Invariably, it will be destroyed by time. Any meaning we find on that level is true only relatively and temporarily." So you're saying looking outside yourself, you're not going to find anything. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): No, that's right.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): So let's go to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in West Hollywood. Is Nick there tonight? Well, Nick, step on up to the microphone. You're back. So glad to see you.

NICK: Good to be here.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Okay. Do you have a question tonight?

NICK: I do. And actually, my question kind of relies on a premise that's not exactly stated in the book, but the premise is "God is love." And if god is love, and you love what you're doing as far as a career, then God, does God then sanction that career, is it then meant to be? Is it right if—let's say if you don't go to church, but if you enjoy doing something like reading—and if you're reading constantly and you get a more spiritual feeling reading than ever walking into a church, then isn't that right? Isn't that in alignment with—or is love not anything that matters in a career choice?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Well, good question. Now, love, of course, is used in a very loose sense. It means so many different things to different people, the expression "I love this or that" or "I love doing this or that" is used casually by people, often meaning totally different things. For example, if somebody is obsessed with what they do in an ego way—totally focused but in a negative way to a large extent, totally obsessed with what they're doing, and they—an outside observer might say, "Oh, he loves what he's doing. He loves it so much that he gets up at 5 every morning and doesn't leave the office until 10 at night." But he's totally obsessed with what he's doing, and there's no love in it. It's an obsession. But because love is used in such a loose way, sometimes we call that love. So when you actually love what you're doing, it's a totally different energy field that moves into what you are doing. It means you are aligned completely with what you do. And then, yes, then you do bring a different consciousness. You bring the unconditioned consciousness into this world through whatever you do. And it might be a doing or it may just be being somewhere. You mentioned a church. You can find God in many places. Any place is holy, and the present moment, when you only pay attention to it completely, then you realize,

actually, it's sacred. The present moment is sacred. When you're really paying attention to it, then it doesn't matter where you are—you can be in a building, you can be out in nature, you can be in the middle of the traffic. And you really bring your attention to this moment, and you realize, "There is sacredness here." You may be able to feel it more deeply when you're out in nature than in the middle of L.A. freeway. But even there it can be sensed if you are present enough. And there, that's love. There love arises, and if you're doing something, and you're total in what you do—not obsessed, not wanting the future more than you want the present, but totally wanting the present, totally wanting what you are doing—then, yes, then you love what you do, and that is true love. And anybody who embodies that energy is creating the new earth.

NICK: So that's correct then.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

NICK: There's a difference, I guess I'm thinking of Joseph Campbell where he talks about following your bliss, and he talks about how appetitive desires like eating and sex and drugs—things through the body, love that come through the body—are nothing compared to the love that comes from the spirit, which makes everything else pale in comparison, and that is the bliss that Joseph Campbell talks about.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

NICK: And that's what I—that's what I think you mean when you say that we're present and we're doing what we're supposed to do because we feel that feeling that makes everything else pale in comparison.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): That's right.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah. Nick, that's what he's talking about at the bottom of 261, "So while you're perhaps still waiting for something significant to happen in your life, you may not realize that the most significant thing that can happen … has already happened within you: the beginning of the separation process of thinking and awareness." When you take yourself out of your head and take yourself out of the doing, doing, doing, doing and allow yourself to connect with the consciousness—or spirit, or soul, whichever word you want to use for it—that is connected to all consciousness. The spirit that is connected to the greater spirit is what it's talking about.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You got it, Nick.

NICK: Thanks.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You've got it.

NICK: It's a lot of hard work, what can I say?

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Nick, listen, I didn't worry this week because he's told you not to worry. Have you been worried about your bills this week?

NICK: Yeah, a little bit.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Oh, wow. Thanks everybody at the Bodhi Tree.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): One more thing, just to add to this. When the doing—when you're doing in that state of consciousness, that means whatever you do is not primarily a means to an end.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Correct.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): But an end in itself.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): You know what you want to achieve through the doing, that's fine, but the essence of the doing is in the doing, not the goal that you want to achieve through it. So often the question you can ask yourself is, "Is what I'm doing right now primarily a means to an end, or am I total in what I do?" And there's a different quality flows into what you do when it is not just a means to an end. And that is doing in the state of presence, different energy flows into that.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): I love that. I also love at the bottom of 263. You say, "For example, if caring for your children gives meaning to your life"—because everybody's looking for meaning—"what happens to the meaning when they don't need you and perhaps don't even listen to you anymore? If helping others gives meaning to your life, you depend on others being worse off than yourself so that your life can continue to be meaningful and you can feel good about yourself. If the desire to excel, win, or succeed," I'm at the top of page 264, everybody, "at this or that activity provides you with meaning, what if you never win or your winning streak comes to an end? … 'Making it' in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don't make it, so you need other human beings to 'fail' so that your life can have meaning." I was going to ask, though, what if you're making it, you're aligned with your purpose?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. Now after that it doesn't say that those things should not be pursued immediately after what you just read.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes, it says, "I am not saying here that helping others, caring for your children, or striving for excellence in whatever field are not worthwhile things to do. For many people, they're important." In the end though, you say, "It means you should connect into your inner, primary purpose, so that a deeper meaning flows into what you do."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. For example then, we talked about looking after your children and that being the main purpose of your life, and again, we have the two dimensions of purpose: outer purpose ,which is what a good parent does anyway. You look after the needs of the child, and you protect the child as much as possible. But it's the inner purpose there also, which the inner purpose is there when a field of awareness arises between you and the child. There's a space. Are you able to give the child spaciousness or space? Are you able to be open and listen to the child in a nonjudgmental way?

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Are you able to be with your child?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Be, are you able to be with your child, or are you lost in doing? Is it continuous doing?

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Or can you bring being into your relationship with your child? And if you bring being in, that is, you're fulfilling the inner purpose. Then when the child grows up, it's less, much less likely or improbable that you will get attached to your role of parent. You will then be able to let go of the role. And then be…

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And then able to be whatever you need to be.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): At any given situation.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): All right. You say, "If you ignore your inner purpose," that's why I keep reading from the book because I think I want to stress how important it is to connect to inner purpose. "If you ignore your inner purpose," bottom of 264, "no matter what you do, even if it looks spiritual, the ego will creep into how you do it, and so the means will corrupt the end. The common saying, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions' points to this truth. In other words, not your aims or actions

are primary, but the state of consciousness out of which they come. Fulfilling your primary purpose is laying the foundation for a new reality, a new earth." Doesn't that mean that it's not just what you do, but it's the intention behind once you do it?

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, the consciousness that flows into what you do. And there's no—future is always secondary in the doing. That is the—your future is not that you look forward to primarily, but totality in what you do, being totally here. Any performer, any—artists know this very well. I, can you be, when you're total, then completely different energy arises.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's right.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): I sometimes, you see, the moment the artist performs sometimes is an empowerment that suddenly comes in because then it's sometimes only then that this person can be absolutely total in the present moment.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I see that. I was with Tina Turner and Cher this weekend for a show that we're doing on May 8. Everybody, don't miss that, Tina Turner and Cher. And watching them in rehearsal, sitting in the, we're just all sitting in the bleachers and watching. And then when they each came to the stage, something happened where there was like, they were infused by something from another level that you could see. Something came over them on the stage.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And whatever that was, this is so interesting watching them perform to (inaudible), you say, "I want some of that." I want some of that. And what that is is the present or level of consciousness that they're bringing. Not just the beat and rock 'n' roll.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): No.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): No.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And that's also what people respond to. They go there because they can sense there's something there that is very powerful.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Very powerful, yeah. Inspiration and enthusiasm.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah. And you say when the combination of inspiration and enthusiasm, something happens that's bigger than one person.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah. So Gwen and Bob have spent the last 17 years teaching at schools on U.S. military bases throughout Europe. They now live outside Munich, Germany, and are Skyping us from their kitchen. Hi, Gwen and Bob from Munich.

GWEN: Hi, Oprah.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Hi.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Hi.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Hello to you all. Is it the middle of the night there or early morning?

GWEN: Yes.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): What's your question?

GWEN: Well, my question's about apologizing. I'm reading on page 258, we say the most important thing to realize is your life has inner and outer purpose. And I have found that apologizing when it's the right time helps me get back in alignment. However, when I have been wronged by someone, I expect to hear that apology to help build the relationship and get it back to a positive way. And I like feeling comfortable around others, and when there's not closure and not—and apologies don't come, I feel very uncomfortable. And I'm beginning to wonder if this is my ego at play, and how can I maintain an inner and outer alignment when I don't feel I have an appropriate apology from the person I expect it from? OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Well, you just answered your own question, really. I'm going to let Eckhart answer you. But you just answered your own question cause you just key word here: appropriate. "I have not received the appropriate apology from people." That would be your ego that needs that appropriate apology. Take it away, Eckhart. Mr. Tolle.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Adding to that, of course, the ego, another thing the ego does is it keeps accounts, and it says, "You owe me." And in this case it says, "You owe me an apology." Now, this is good because this is an opportunity for you to become aware of the ego in you. So whenever the ego arises and you recognize it as the ego, it's a great opportunity of saying, "Oh, there's the ego." There are the thoughts that the ego produces in my mind which say, "He should apologize. She should have apologized." And another thought that comes: "I can't be comfortable with this person anymore unless he or she apologizes." You can observe the thoughts that the ego produces, and you can observe the emotions that are there as

a result of those thoughts. So it's a wonderful opportunity for you to see your own ego, which is no more than the human ego. It doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you, but to observe ego in action. This is always the greatest thing to—and then at that moment when you become aware of this kind of thought emotional, mental emotional pattern in you, who are you? When you recognize it, you're already in the space of awareness from where you recognize it.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You take away its power.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You diminish its power.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): And so people—there are many reasons why people don't apologize. People don't apologize because they may not even know that there is anything to apologize in their view of things. Or they may not apologize because their interpretation of what's happened is the complete opposite of your interpretation. Perhaps they think—or their ego thinks—that you should apologize. Or, or… GWEN: Well, I'd like to think I do. I get it.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): But also that's how you're using it based on what you're saying. Based on what you just told us here, it's your ego's way of feeling superior because you like to think you do and you're the one that goes and says, "Well, I apologized and you didn't."

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Or you can keep a resentment inside for quite a while—an inner resentment—whenever you think of that person or you meet that person. There's a little resentment at the back, which is also the ego. The ego loves hanging on to resentments. And when resentments go on for a long time, as I've described somewhere in the book, they've become grievances. Grievances are heavy, long-term resentments. So you can observe that in yourself, and again be happy that you're observing, able to observe the ego in you. It's a wonderful thing to be able to do that. And of course, and then another person, the other person who is not apologizing, perhaps it's the ego who prevents them from apologizing because the ego in many people—this is not a particular function perhaps of your ego, but in many other people—the ego finds it almost impossible to apologize because it believes that it would be losing something by apologizing, which of course is a delusion. So these things happened. It's a wonderful opportunity for you to see your own ego, and by seeing it, you realize the awareness grows in you.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's right. Bob, what's your question for Eckhart?

BOB: Yes. On page 265, Eckhart refers to—"your external purpose becomes charged with spiritual power because your aims and intentions will be one with the evolutionary impulse of the universe."

奥普拉·温弗瑞 讲稿

她是私生子，却被母亲遗弃 奥普拉是一个私生子，从小跟妈妈一起生活。难以置信的是，9岁时候，她受到了自己堂兄的侵犯，年幼的她默默忍受了。不懂世事的她因为缺乏教育和管理，14岁那年，她意外怀孕了，连孩子的父亲是谁都不知道；更不幸的是，没过几年，孩子便早夭了，她又重归堕落。她的童年生活，简直可以用悲惨来形容。 或许是因为私生子的关系，从小母亲便对她不好。犯了一点小错便会受到母亲的责骂。缺乏良好的教育，再加上母亲对她置之不理，恶性循环，小奥普拉一步步走向堕落。她的母亲难以忍受她，便将她送到了父亲的身边。可作为一个私生子，又是黑人，她又能有多好的待遇呢？ 父亲和继母对她严加管教，有时候甚至以不学习不让吃饭来威胁她。离开了抛弃她的母亲，好在坚强的她并未放弃自己，接受着这来之不易的改造机会。 她仿佛是个灰姑娘，可她没有绝美的面庞，没有好心的精灵，她只有自己。于她而言，王子并不是改变人生的关键，她在功课上特别努力，并且最后考上了大学，赢得了田纳西州小姐的桂冠。她在大众眼里确实并不美丽，甚至属于长得很丑的类型。幸运的是，当时的评审看中了她的机智和才华。认为她是一个可塑之才。而这才华远远胜过光有美貌的其他人。也正是她出色的口才，为她后来赢得了著名广播公司的青睐。 长得太丑，去整容都无人接收 毕业后的她很快有了一份工作，却并未得到她意料中的反馈，于是，她被调职了。与此同时，她的领导要求她去整容，因为她的相貌不符合当时黑人美女的要求。可悲并且无奈的是，连整容医生看到她的脸都觉得无药可救，不想给她做手术。 这看似幸运，却又像是赤裸裸的嘲讽。然而成功怎会是朝夕之间的成就呢？ 若容貌是阻碍，便用才华披荆斩棘，若挫折是机遇，便要越挫越勇。 看脸的时代又怎么样，她就算没有一张美脸照样可以活得很出色。调职后的她更加发奋努力，很快她就掌握到了要领，迅速打响名气，成为红极一时的女主持人。芝加哥美国广播公司也因此注意到了她，以23万美元的年薪将奥普拉招致麾下。

奥普拉在斯坦福大学2008毕业典礼上的演讲

奥普拉在斯坦福大学2008毕业典礼上的演讲[中英文对照] Thank you, President Hennessy, and to thetrustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the Stanford graduates. Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you. I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret. The secret is that Kirby Bumpus, Stanford Class of '08, is my goddaughter. So, I was thrilled when President Hennessy asked me to be your Commencement speaker, because this is the first time I've been allowed on campus since Kirby's been here. You see, Kirby's a very smart girl. She wants people to get to know her on her own terms, she says. Not in terms of who she knows. So, she never wants anyone who's first meeting her to know that I know her and she knows me. So, when she first came to Stanford for new student orientation with her mom, I hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming, and somebody came up to Kirby and they said, "Ohmigod, that's Gayle King!" Because a lot of people know Gayle King as my BFF [best friend forever]. And so somebody comes up to Kirby, and they say, "Ohmigod, is that Gayle King?" And Kirby's like, "Uh-huh. She's my mom." And so the person says, "Ohmigod, does it mean, like, you know Oprah Winfrey?" And Kirby says, "Sort of." I said, "Sort of? You sort of know me?" Well, I have photographic proof. I have pictures which I can e-mail to you all of Kirby riding horsey with me on all fours. So, I more than sort-of know Kirby Bumpus. And I'm so happy to be here, just happy that I finally, after four years, get to see her room. There's really nowhere else I'd rather be, because I'm so proud of Kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in psychology. Love you, Kirby Cakes! That's how well I know her. I can call her Cakes. And so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, Will. I really had nothing to do with her graduating from Stanford, but every time anybody's asked me in the past couple of weeks what I was doing, I would say, "I'm getting ready to go to Stanford." I just love saying "Stanford." Because the truth is, I know I would have never gotten my degree at all, 'cause I didn't go to Stanford. I went to Tennessee State University. But I never would have gotten my diploma at all, because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but I was short one credit. And I figured, I'm just going to forget it, 'cause, you know, I'm not going to march with my class. Because by that point, I was already on television. I'd been in television since I was 19 and a sophomore. Granted, I was the only television anchor person that had an 11 o'clock curfew doing the 10 o'clock news.

Oprah Winfrey奥普拉·温弗瑞英语励志名言：没有奋斗就没有力量

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