"Within a few hours of the shows airing, I began to receive letters.
I stayed up late answering them.
Women from all over the country wrote to me about their lives and dreams and their fears.
They spoke of issues of self esteem and their need for true and profound transformation.
I took their feelings to heart and supported them with my words.
I have been where they are.
I know how hard life can be.
And I sit here tonight, only blessed to be some where else.
I cannot tell you how profound change can happen for you, but I can tell
you the things that I have learned along my way.
When you are lost it is OK to cry often.
You will surrender your confidence for humility.
The confident can make a path, but for the humble a path will be made.
You will surrender your answers for questions.
Those with answers learn nothing.
All their sentences end with a period.
Those who live the question mark have at least
the hope of becoming an exclamation point.
The period has no hope of change.
Surrender your addictions.
Sorry.
But, your addictions keep you from the truth.
And it is true that the truth will set you free.
If you are in addiction think of yourself as
deaf, mute, blind and in a dead end.
This is the level of your limitation.
If you are OK with your life as it is then
keep it up.
But if you want change, the fastest way is
to put it down.
Your positive thoughts will make a good life.
But an empty mind ruled by a grateful heart will make
a miraculous life.
Miracles are beyond your understanding.
You cannot create the miracle you want.
You can only receive it.
You must stop trying to know everything.
Instead celebrate knowing nothing.
You cannot receive an answer if you do
not live in a question.
I tell you, I know this to be true, all your answers will have voice in your joy.
And those that love you will join this voice in harmony.
The path you seek is one you have been paving most of your life.
It will consist of the things you have always loved, and of those that
have always brought you joy.
Joseph Campbell wrote that we should follow our bliss and he was right.
Go where you love.
Go without a map and have no answers.
You are not wise enough to go forth with an answer.
Go only with questions.
Ask everyone you know and all the strangers you meet.
Where am I?
Here is what I love.
What shall I do?
How shall I do it?
And wait. Watch. Listen.
The answers are all around you and they are simple.
And say yes to any offers of work.
You cannot pray for work and then turn it down.
Say yes.
Go.
Learn.
Witness.
Give.
Like this you will be shown answers.
Put your ego aside.
Cry if that hurts.
But do it anyway.
And what ever your religion get good at prayer.
To pray is to say thank you. That is all.
Do not ask for anything.
You don’t know what you want.
You don’t know what you need.
If you did you would have it.
Remember, again, know nothing and pray
only thank you, thank you, thank you.
For every little thing, always, thank you." -Shareen Mitchell
Well it's my friend Aja's hat actually.....super cute! I look like a train conductor....hence the choo choo face and the fist pulling the cord for the whistle....anyways!.....
