Click here to read Oprah's entire 1997 commencement address to the graduates of Wellesley College.
For more inspiring words for graduates, check out the gallery Beliefnet put up yesterday, based on the quotes I compiled in a previous post.
Oprah at Wellesley
Tuesday June 5, 2007
Categories: Inspiration and Prayer
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Creative visualization, or "The Secret," or the law of attraction -- or whatever you want to call Oprah's philosophy -- is not inspiring for those of us with depression. It is nothing short of monstrous. If I were to try to visualize what I want into creation during a manic jag, I would end up in a psych ward, in jail -- or dead.
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