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Name: The Path Made Clear
Rating: 4.4 (161 reviews)
Author: Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

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What’s in it for me? Guidance from a wise soul.

As we grow up and move into the world, we discover who we are and the path we’re meant to walk along in the journey of our lives. But with the complicated nature of modern life, these revelations may become clouded, postponed or even canceled. When this happens, we begin sleepwalking through life – present, but not truly conscious. How many of us are working at a job that we know we aren’t meant for, or only paying superficial attention to our most important relationships? Many of us have lost our direction in life and are merely just floating along.

In The Path Made Clear, Oprah Winfrey wants to assist those in need of guidance, and reveal the path toward a happier and more fulfilling existence by living a true and authentic life. These blinks are for those of us who feel like a ship without a rudder or those whose rudder is off course.

In these blinks, you’ll find out

how our lives speak in whispers;
why deep listening is a crucial social technique; and
why we should redefine our concept of success.

Everyone is born with a purpose. To find it, we need to pay attention to ourselves.

We’ve all been driven to despair at some point in our lives. Maybe this comes as a moment of spiritual crisis where we question our values, our faith or the meaning of life itself. During these moments, when we’re lost and overwhelmed by negative emotions, it’s hard to believe that there’s a unique purpose for which we were born.

But the fact is, every human being has a calling – an essential role to play while we’re here on Earth. To discover our calling and embark on our own path in life, we first need to identify what makes us the person we are – the seeds of our identity. Often, the seeds inside of us are immediately recognizable, and they only require a bit of nurturing to take root. If someone is born with an innate love of reading, for example, they’ve probably been watering this seed with literature from an early age. One day, they might flower into an author or librarian.

At other times, these seeds are hidden away deep in our souls and we only discover them later in life. It’s important to remember that our lives are never static. Every moment of our lives, every choice, success and failure, is a chance to discover and nurture more seeds.

Just take the beginning of Oprah’s career. Before she found fame with The Oprah Winfrey Show, she worked as a news anchor in the early 1970s for several networks. Although many would be delighted with such a job, Oprah was dissatisfied because she knew she wasn’t being true to her authentic self – she wasn’t making decisions in her life that reflected her inner self. Her bosses weren’t happy either – they told her she was the wrong size and showed too much emotion.

As a result, in 1978, Oprah was demoted from news anchor to co-host of the talk show People Are Talking. This was a positive experience because she discovered her true calling – a seed hidden away in her. Interviewing the businessman Tom Carvel on her first day, a passion engulfed her. Suddenly, she realized that she was meant to engage in conversation and listen to people.

To discover your own seeds, live your life with full awareness. Once you do, your seeds will begin to germinate and sprout. However you find them, they are already planted within you – it’s just a case of listening to yourself and life’s little whispers.

Life speaks to us in whispers.

Tough situations and moments of tragedy will inevitably punctuate the journey of our lives. These can feel like startling speed bumps on our own private road. Losing our job, falling into debt or separating from a partner can shock us and cause real emotional trauma.

But while these personal struggles may feel sudden, the truth is that they seldom arrive without warning signals – just like road signs that tell us of upcoming speed bumps. In fact, life is constantly speaking to us, offering subtle clues about which path to take. We can call these whispers.

Fear is an intrinsic part of realizing our dreams.

It’s said that nothing good in life ever comes easy. Whether it’s pursuing success in our careers or building a solid relationship, the effort involved in meeting our goals can be daunting. It can be so daunting that it manifests in fear – sometimes causing us to wallow in inaction.

But inaction is the wrong reaction to fear. In fact, fear is a natural part of any important undertaking, and the level of fear is relative to how significant that undertaking is for your development. This is what the author Steven Pressfield told Oprah during a conversation in 2013. Steven explained that with every dream comes a shadow of resistance – they are inseparable, like yin and yang. What’s more, the bigger the dream, the more resistance we’ll feel as we pursue it.

To achieve our goals, we must find our flow.

Many people speak of being “in the zone.” This could refer to a productive spell in our workday, for instance, and it’s common for artists or long-distance runners to experience this when creating or competing. But what does it actually mean?

We can view being in the zone as a form of flow – a period of ultra-focus when the concept of time falls away, and we are wholly devoted to our task. And finding our flow is crucial to success on our chosen path. Of course, finding your flow only comes after you know which direction you are taking with your life; you must always know your life’s path before you can find flow. But once you do, the positive energy generated from knowing your path will provide momentum – focus comes easily when pursuing your dreams.

Every moment is a chance to be of service to another person.

The world we live in privileges the individual. Advertisements on TV attempt to speak to us alone; our economy rewards those who create their own wealth; and, all too often, we vote for a political leader’s personality rather than their party’s policies. Our notions of community and kinship are breaking down as we continue to move into megacities, becoming anonymous faces in the sea of humanity.

But there’s another way of being, and it involves using our time on Earth to help others.

The truest measure of success is living out the truth of who you are.

We closed the last blink by touching on the idea that material wealth pales in comparison to the emotional wealth you can create by serving other people. This blink will explore the nature of success, how it functions and why we need to redefine our concept of the term. The first thing we need to realize is that success comes in cycles.

When the author Sarah Ban Breathnach published Simple Abundance in 1996, she had no idea that it would sell seven million copies and catapult her to the top of the best-seller charts. Speaking of her success to Oprah in 2013, Breathnach admitted to experiencing a curious moment of angst when her book dropped out of the best-seller list.

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Finding the path we’re meant to take in life, and figuring out how to take it, are some of the greatest personal challenges we must all face. Oprah Winfrey addresses this in her new book, The Path Made Clear (2019), offering insight into this spiritual journey and sharing the wisdom she has learned throughout her career.

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I dont believe in coincidence. I know there is a divine order to the magnificent mystery of our lives.

—Oprah Winfrey

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Über den Autor

Oprah Winfrey is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and media personality, best known for her 25-year stint hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show, a wildly successful daytime TV talk show. Since the show’s conclusion in 2011, Oprah has focused on growing her own TV network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).

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