OPRAH: what are the questions one needs to ask oneself? LYNNE: Well, I
think one needs to look at what bounty and blessings have I received from
the universe that I want to acknowledge and celebrate? What do I want to
celebrate about today? What happened today that I can celebrate, that I
can be grateful for. And rather than waking up in the morning, I didn't get
enough sleep, and going to bed at night with, I didn't get enough done,
which is bookending your day, the scarcity. OPRAH: Yeah. I think this is
interesting for us to think about how many times a day that tape plays of not
enough. LYNNE: Yeah. Yeah. OPRAH: Not just in money. How many
times a not enough shows up. LYNNE: But what if we woke up in the
morning and are so grateful for the sweet territory of silence and sleep?
What if we go to bed at night -- OPRAH: Oh, I love that. Hold on a
moment. The sweet territory of silence and sleep. Oh, I like that. Go ahead.
LYNNE: And you can wake up that way. You can actually tell yourself to do
that. Our mind is very obedient. Even if it's just four hours.
And be grateful for that. And then at the end
of the day, rather than looking at what didn't get done that's going to
dribble over into tomorrow, which is where we mostly end up each day --
OPRAH: Yes. LYNNE: -- to look at what I accomplished today. What I
celebrate today. You know, today -- every day is such a blessing. And I --
I have a wonderful teacher now, Brother David Steindl-Rast. He's a fantastic
Benedictine monk. And he's the icon of gratefulness. And he says that
gratefulness is the experience of the great fullness of life. And when you're
in the great full any things of life, the bowl of life is so full, it's almost
overflowing, but not quite. Not yet dribbling over the edges. And you're
one with God, one with the universe, and there is no other when you stand
in and live in the great fullness of life. And that great fullness is so powerful
that it overflows into a fountain in the bowl of life. And that puts you in this
other branch of gratitude he calls Thanksgiving. And when you're in the
branch of gratitude called Thanksgiving, the bowl of life is overflowing. And
you're so grateful that there's another. Because all you want to do is give
and share and serve and contribute. And that's so fulfilling, it puts you back
in the great fullness of life. OPRAH: Yes. LYNNE: So you can live in that
cycle. You can actually live in that cycle no matter
what your financial circumstances.