Oprah on The Secret- The Law of Attraction

By Liz Uible

I have been spending much of today working on tracking down the Oprah video for the episode that aired yesterday on “The Secret- Reactions One Week Later,” which aired 2/16/07. Not having a TV, I rely on the internet to get my pop culture.

In addition to Oprah, I have seen 'The Secret' on Ellen and even an episode of Larry King in which he interviews some of the cast from The Secret. I have not yet seen yesterday's "reaction" episode. Luckily, Oprah has a written summary of the show on her site. And I got my hands on the first episode which aired 2/8/07.

What I am impressed with about all of the interviews with the cast is the common sense approach this truly is. What we think about creates who we are. What your thoughts dwell on today creates your future tomorrow. It is so simple! And in fact, it is NOT a secret. This is something we have been taught for over 2000 years. Maybe we just forget easily.

In 1965, Napoleon Hill wrote in The Master Key to Riches, “any thought held in the mind through repetition, begins immediately to translate itself into its physical equivalent.” In other words What we think about today creates our reality tomorrow.

As a Man Thinketh is a book written over 100 years ago. In it James Allen writes “As a plant springs from and could not be without the seeds, so every act of man springs from a hidden thought and could not have appeared without them.” In other words, What we thought about yesterday (and last year) creates who we are today.

And here is the doosey:
In the New Testament, Jesus says “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Mathew 17:10) In other words: Our thoughts, combined with faith create our reality.

I am left thinking about this last quote. A mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds. It is tiny! So if we dwell on the tiniest of thoughts and truly have faith, we can literally change any "reality" in our lives. That is pretty exciting.