Hello dear, I agree that the ego is very important . I am sorry to say, that my mother & grandmother experienced life long pain & suffering due to orthodox Catholic teachings, that got passed down to me as well. The message was, as women, our duty was to God, family, husband, church, the world, Jesus, & our reward would be in the hereafter. Should we fail, there were punishments waiting there, too.~ And so I spent my life seeing myself as a sinner, not worthy, and I did my best to crucify my ego. Which really means, not to grow as a person. ~ My gramma & mother suffered life long & died in terrible ways. ~ They were haunted by not being good enough, not big enough, not pleasing people correctly, because they were expected to slave every day. What kind of life is that ? My grandmother dreamed of moving to the countryside. She never did. My mother wanted to go to Egypt to study archeology. She never did. ~ And guess who followed in their suffering foot steps ? Me. .~ Ah, Cyndi Lauper, I liked her, too. Did you ever see the video where she was filmed on stage / doing “ Money Changes Everything ? “ She was wearing one black sneaker & one white sneaker. I thought that was so cool. I got two pairs of exact sneakers & wore them miss matched. I caused quite a stir in my little European neighborhood community. ~ I had my hair styled like Boy George, & got bullied for that. Then I discovered gothic & new wave music & began wearing very strange British inspired outfits. ( sigh ) That didn’t go over well with my neighbors & coworkers either. My conservative husband left me for a rich, conservative white woman. And at the time, it devastated me, because of the Catholic guilt & shame thing. I was supposed to wear black & act like a widow. Even though my husband left me. ( he cheated on me ) - I was already over sensitive & guilt ridden, & world weary. Now on top of all this, I had to take on purgatory, in the after life because of my crappy husband. ~ Lots of bad things happened to me around that time. ~ I was in a tailspin for sure. Then I got a scary diagnosis. And on top of that, I had a medical crisis, a few actually in succession. I interpreted it as God telling me I was no longer his child, and never would be.. ~ Wow. That’s not a way to live ! - But at that time, I never heard of loving myself. I believed that if I wanted to experience love, someone outside of me had to love me. And if my own husband that I served & sacrificed for, didn’t love me, then I must be unlovable. To top it off, the church said, God cannot love me now because I am fallen from grace. ~ I prayed for death to take me, because I was sick & terrified & no where to turn. ~ This July 21 was the 30th anniversary of those turn of events. ~ I feel like I took my finals, and now I’m finally out of that long loop ...Finally.. free.. ~ I came very close to getting trapped again by assorted teachers & gurus who declare, one must sacrifice one self to be enlightened. ~ Uhhh, no thanks ! I’m going to take my chances on just being myself. It’s what I know best 🌷I like being ME

You are just absolutely lovable and adorable - I had the biggestst gleeful smile on my face when you shared the story of being a big Cyndi Lauper fan in the midst of traditional Indian pressure of arranged marriage. You being who you are is what led you to the beautiful man you are now married to! There is SO MUCH beautiful wisdom in this video and I love how you share your AMAZING wisdom in such a sincere and humble way. You talk to people in a way that is of equal-footing and you do not speak in a condescending way or "I'm so enlightened and maybe someday you'll be as blissfully madly happy as me" way that some "gurus" do. This soothed my heart and soul so much and you helped me understand myself better as an empathy - what you described with taking on others feelings as my own is exactly what I do.

Shine your Light Anita ❤ ABBA is Swedish! Lots of Love from Sweden 🇸🇪

Anita, I love you (and Danny and your team) SO MUCH! You have sprinkled fairy dust over my life. I have shared you with friends who have thanked me and spoken about how your gentle but fierce spirit has impacted them. Lovelovelove to You and all those you love!!

Montreal, Canada August 2021. Your my Cindy Lauper! 🥰

Buddha said there is nothing more precious than myself in the Universe (above and under the heaven ). Being myself and treating myself well is the first thing we need to do to ourselves.

こんにちは。　日本からです。 あなたの本に出会って私はとても生きる勇気が湧いてきました。 KZfaqを見てあなたからのメッセージをたくさん受け取りたいのですが、日本語に翻訳されているものが限られています。 是非もっと翻訳したものをアップしてください。お願いします。 新しい本が出るのが待ち遠しいです。

I am really getting a new kind of understanding whenever I listen to you , I am more frequently listening these days . Thanks .

You make me feel so understood and loved. So much of your story resounded with me, you gave a voice to my pain. Thank you 🙏🏽 I am blessed by your light.

Firstly some years ago I was guided to Louise Hay who saved me! And now you, i really love you Anita, I am so grateful to be guided to you! Thank you for all you do 💕💕💕

A beautiful video with beautiful and true messages- thanks a lot!

Anita Moorjani...I Love You, for shining your light and speaking your Truth!

You are an extraordinary person Anita...but what I love most on you is that you are sensitive and encouraging sensitive people in a crazy world. I love You 🙏♥️🙏♥️

Women - have been forbidden to choose for themselves - for eons We are raised to be servants all our lives And to sacrifice everything to serve We are trained from early childhood to be small & stay small - And we develop all kinds of mental & physical illness

I'm on my own spiritual journey as of now. Interesting that I saw this video the moment I woke up. Yes, Anita, you are so right! I spent this year reflecting on my intention, my soul's purpose. It's interesting how you feel you have to defend that purpose, right? There's a reason we are all here and we can feel that at the core of ourselves. We wish that those we love would see it too, but that's not always the case. I was blessed to have a mother who saw who I was and encouraged me to pursue it, but for the rest of my family and friends, they didn't get it and often times argued with me, but as uneasy as it was, I did what I felt was me. An interesting thing happens when you stay true to your core and follow your soul, it seems to all fall into place even when those who ridicule you or make it difficult for you don't see it and argue against it. Journal and find your path and feel that path. You'll be so thankful you did.

Love your radiance Anita! You overflow with such positivity and happiness! Love listening to you! Thank you🙏

Dear Anita! I am in Florida, Russian immigrant. I love your expression sooo much! By dimming ourselves we do not enlightening the world, we just maintain the darkness. 😄😄😄😄😄😄 I believe it is going to be your famous quote!

Thank you for this message Anita , about taking leadership for empaths

I had a very similar experience when I was growing up in a christian church. My parents brought me to "counselling" with the pastor because I began to have (gasp*) independant thought as I got older and I began questioning, and also disagreeing with things I had been taught. I had to go every week so he could tell me that I was in this world to "obey". Anything but meek subservience was a "selfish and rebellious attitude".

"The answer to every problem in the world is love. That's my truth." You are love in action Anita! I love your laugh too. Your joy is contagious. Thank you angel! and Happy Birthday Melana!

What a wonderful message!

A big thank you for all your help.

Anita's book is my bible! love so much,　and very excited about third book❤️❤️❤️　わかりやすい日本語字幕ありがとうございます‼️　とてもよいお話しでした😆

Thank you for your "morning tea" chat! I first listened to "Dying to be Me" about 5 years ago. At that time I focused on the cancer and dying part of your story. As I listened to you this morning during an interview on SirriusXM, it hit me what "Dying to be Me" meant! I'm 61 years old and am now open to being myself...that 11 year old who had a drive and sense of justice. I appreciate you using your experience to encourage others.

I've said it before... I really like your messages.:D Finally someone who speaks simple and beautiful truths... not in such a complicated out of world "look how enlightened I am"guru way:-)

“Lack of empathy...” - SO TRUE!!! And empathy is the feeling and thought on which we should make our most important decisions - as an individual, a society, and a world. I think that love and kindness are the only things that REALLY matter. The people who have lost or have never have had these things in an adequate capacity are the people who can attest to this most confidently. I venture to predict that the leaders who lack love and kindness and empathy, who if deprived of it, would quickly agree.

Truly thankful to discover Anita at this difficult time of life. The comment about sensitive people embracing leadership positions - employers don't normally put those types of personalities in leadership positions. Sensitive types tend to be quiet, nurturing, and introspective.

It’s great to see you again

Oh and loved the message of get in receiving mode doing something nice for yourself everyday.... I am ultra Sensitive n I do want to get outside of my comfort zone n help homeless, or help in other ways, we always give cash or whatever we can, I AM TAKING TIME TO DEVELOP MY HEALING SKILLS, Oops sorry didn't mean to shout, but I WANT so much more out of life. I know the inspired actions needed will present themselves and unfold in a fluid manner. Thx for your words!!!!

Anita this is my first comment, you and your work are both the gems of knowledge my soul has been searching for I'm sure. I have a story like yours, I hope I get to tell you one day!! I am still in the middle of my journey though, I am eternally grateful for what you've done to get your messages out to the world. You make an amazing impact and I so want to be one of those leaders You re speaking about!!!

Be strong enough to be your true self! Anita, thanks for being such a great role model!

アニータさんの動画日本語にしてくださって凄くうれしい。ありがとうございます。ハイセンシティブでエンパスな事は否定的な情報しかなかったので、希望が持てるようになりました。もっとシェアされた動画を日本語訳で観たいです。

So true embracing my ego and not ego centric. ❤Seriously some people really teach it the wrong way

Anita the coulor of the schall suite you very much !!!

Thank you for shining your light!

THANKYOU....sooooo much wisdom you’re blessed with ! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I bought your book, when it came out, and resonated with you and what you spoke of reminded me of the transcendent experience of the other side that I had when I was young, after suffering a great loss. Now, I am so happy to find these videos you make! Hearing you speak from your heart, telling the honest truth, sparks realizations and deep understanding in me. Thank you so very much for being who you are and sharing your wisdom and love.

Thank you so much for everything Anita!! You are amazing!! Your message is amazing!

Where I went to High School cheerleading was a huge deal. We were almost celebrities. The end of my sophomore year I had to make up a dance for the girls trying out for the JV team as I was moving up to Varsity. The song that I picked was "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and I came up with a dance routine, but then I had to teach it over and over....and then I had to hear it play a hundred times over as each group of girls tried out to it! I went a little bit nuts. 😝Just the other day I was thinking about a girl who was a blonde headed Lisa just like me and she loved Cyndi Lauper! She would dress up like her and do her hair like her and she had all these crazy outfits ....everybody thought she was so strange here in the South, North Carolina. People just didn't express themselves like that here in the south, but I was thinking about her the other day and how people were always trying to dim her light. I was one of her only friends, but I wish now that I hadn't been so critical of her... That took some guts to pull off in our little Bible belt, small, southern county. I wonder where she is today and if she's happy. I would love to talk with her.

Anita I just love you, you are confirming everything I ever believed in. My parents hated that I am not like everybody else and they use to say always "there is something wrong with her, she is messed up" I knew that is never true and they were trying to make me conform. You are sharing a wonderful message to always listen to yourself and be yourself. Much love.

You really are a Beautiful Soul Anita! I truly Love you! and what you share resonate with my Soul word to word!

Wonderful explanation, thank you very much 🙏

Hello from Quebec, Canada. Love this! Needed to hear it just now, especially about the ego. Thank you so much.

What an incredible story! Thank you so much for sharing your story about your meeting with the Indian guru, because I think that many spiritual gurus are dangerous for who listen to them. You are the opposite and your videos are amazing and precious. Kisses from Italy 😘🇮🇹

I felt like some of the messages in this video were personally addressed to me. Thank you, Anita! Love from Bulgaria.

Exactly what I needed to hear, something "clicked." Thank you Anita!

I love your history. I am in SP, Brazil. Thank you so much.❤

Thank you! Spot on again, just what I need to hear

Thank you I believe that too love is the most important thing to give and share we’re on this earth or any other🐢

Love it!!! You can really see the chemistry and respect between you two ❤️

It would be true to say that you have helped me immensely in realising the required balance among embracing our ego and awareness. Thankyou so much dear, I can never forget you in my life.

It is quite inspiring how you were able to challenge that guru by asking why you can't be yourself. It remindes us to follow our intuition & not just blindly follow even a guru.

wow wow wow light bulb moment. Thanks Anita. I have been squashed up for 61 years!!

Yes I definitely relate to you. I feel everyone’s emotion and I feel myself always stressed out and overthinking and analyzing everything

Oh my god thank you so much this is the most helpful thing everrrrrr!!!!!!! So much love !!

Incredible talk!! love to you Anita!!! ❤️

Second time I watched this, and I got SO much this day, especially. Thank you for speaking your truth< Anita!

It happens in Vietnamese culture too. Women are not treated as an equal to men. There are forwarded thinking families but they are the exception. Maybe time has changed.

とても、そうそう、と思うことが、多く、 種類は色々とあっても、抑圧による弊害に、やっぱりと、納得することが、沢山ありました。日本語にしてくださって、ありがとう😊💕✨ございました。三冊目の本も楽しみにしたいますし、すでに、日本語訳の動画があることは、とっても、🥰嬉しいので、日本語訳の動画をこれかも増やしてください。たのしみにしてます。😀✨

This really resonated with me, thank you for sharing ❤

Colorado, USA sending you love!

Thanks Anita, I learn so much from you. I have to say just for the people listening, it really depends on the family values coming from the local society in terms of the "culture" we are taught growing up. I grew up in New Delhi which is a big city and the capital city of India, and no one taught me to be subservient to men. My mom used to cut her hair short. There have been several powerful women in India throughout history. The Prime Minister (most powerful political position in India) of India was a woman from 1966 to 1977, and then again from 1980 to 84. I do agree with people in foreign countries trying to preserve their culture a bit more than in India. hehe.

Ego equals FEAR..... FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL

i just love you! 🙏🏻😘

Yes, agree with you Plz do more vids on being sensitive and how to express this to people without feeling guilt or that there's something wrong with u? Thank you so much 🙏✨

Ego is the false sense of self

THANK YOU ANITA! Hugs and kisses to you from Ukraine)))

Anita, with neon striped hair you simply were ahead of your time! ;)

My dear Anita, what a great inspiration you are, I don't know yet what lidership position I can take at my age, 73, but I know for sure that I am very sensitive to the world suffering, and emphasized with people suffering. Now I need to find out exactly what I need to do to help others, which I have done for very long, but maybe I need to change my perspective, do it in a different way than I was doing it before. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings with us.

Hi, Anita. As an empath, I've been told that I'm somehow too imaginative in that everyone can tell when someone is, say, feeling angry because they shout and rage, and I have had to explain that being an empath is more subtle than that: it's more or less sensing the underlying and unexpressed emotions in people - in essence, it's like having a good WiFi connection, lol. For me, being an empath is both a blessing and a curse: for example, it's a blessing in that it allows me to open my heart to other beings, but a curse in that it can sometimes be like breathing toxic air when I feel society's unawakened attitudes towards life, both human and non-human. I am 100% convinced that humanity is growing in awareness, but I think it's safe to say the overwhelming majority are unaware, and this unfortunately includes the citizens, soldiers and leaders. As a philosopher with an autistic perspective of the world, I wonder why people with alternative views, like me, aren't provided with the opportunity to voice our opinions on mainstream television - KZfaq is great, but trying to spread awareness on a large scale is difficult to do with it if your voice is only as loud as the millions more that are in fact saying nothing of any substance - and I think it's because ultimately those in control are of egocentric characters that bear a stubbornness towards humility. But this attitude they wield is a burden that only serves to slow down human learning and development. It would be interesting to hear your and other views regarding society's careful regulatory feeding of information to the masses. X

You have a positive message and the ability to help so many people. It would be interesting to hear your views on God, Religion, the teachings of the Bible, sin, suffering and the ultimate reason we exist.

Anita your Magnificent YOUR LIGHT IS SHINING BRIGHT, MUCH LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY LOVE WAYNE SMITH

This was incredible! And this message has reached me just when I needed to hear it! Thanks Anita :) Love you so much as always! Would love to meet you some day :)

I HAVE A HARD TIME SAYING NO AND WATCHING YOU REALIZED THAT MY COMMITMENT IS WITH MYSELF....MINDY

I can relate to your story in 2020.

I can relate, feel other peoples feelings

Oh my yes Dimming my light! Thank you ANITA ALSO HERES A FAMOUS QUOTE "BE YOUR SELF EVERYONE ELSE IS ALREADY TAKEN!"

so so true

❤️🙏

Love you Anita, kisses from Argentina!

It's 11:30pm here in Montreal Canada!

❤

Dear Anita, I love you so much and I thank you for all your teaching. I'm reading your first book for the moment and I discover each day your wonderful videos on youtube, allow me to grow up in love (included in love with me ;) ) What a wonderful way you show us ! Kisses and Love from Belgium

Love Love Love XXX

Very inspiring message. Plz tell me how to reconcile between ur real self n social norms?

Thank you Anita. I am inspired by you. I loved 'Dying to be me' Could you ask Melayna to get closer to the mike, I have trouble hearing the questions. I am in BC, Canada.

Iwere going to fw. Later no time for this

Hello Tony from Florida

(HELP ME!) Anitha, I have been following you, but being yourself made people call me Childish and I used to say, "I'm happy for who I am", I'm studying top university and have a good career. I'm sensitive and famous in where ever I go. But, it also makes me feel down cuz people's opinion effects me alot, like I feel really bad to the comments, how to help myself, for being sensitive at the same time famous, this makes me think alot, like a victim to gossips.

Anita, you have become a true líder, congrats !! What microphone do u use?

Hello from a tiny town in Oregon called Tygh Valley! My nickname for this place is Tygh dye valley L🍭L Love your messages about authenticity 💞 Recently I said no to someone but I made up a fake excuse. Now she wants to see me privately to discuss what is going on with me. I'm afraid to be myself around her because of judgemental things she says to me. I just feel sick to my stomach when she wants to meet with me privately like I have done something wrong. Has this happened to you where someone wants to get closer the more you say no to them?

Dear sister, I am leaving comments all over the place for you, I really hope you get a chance to read them. I use conventional language to express myself though we now know that everything is an expression of the One. I was born and raised in Italy in a Catholic family. It was 1967 near Milan, my two brothers were 6 and 1 year old. Italy used to be a very violent country, in the South in particular, women had no rights and were considered as cattle. My father was from the South and we often went to his village on holidays. I hated being discriminated against, especially because my brothers could do whatever they wanted. My father is very open minded and never repressed me. My mother is from Sardegna, from the capital city so her culture was different. I grew up during the economical boom so my parents were both working full time and my brothers and I spent most of our time at school until 4 pm. I had to learn to fight boys because even at school I felt discriminated against. Luckily, I was not the only one, at age 6, a girl climbed to the roof of our 1 story building, asking to provide her with pants or she would never climb down. The school had to call her mum who rushed to school with her pants. This little girl lived in the same building where I lived and we became inseparable best friends. You were Cindy Lauper and I was punk, it was a great way to keep people at a distance but to attract similar kids. Everybody told me that I was bad that I believed it. It was only at age 15, when a girl kissed me that my world turned upside down. I was homophobic! Thanks to the catholic church, in my mind romantic love was only between a male and a female. To accept my homosexuality wasn't easy but my best friend came out to me a few months earlier and I told her we couldn't be friends anymore because I would have misinterpreted her behaviour. She looked at me angrily and shouted - I don't like you! -. We were just like sisters. My friend had always been way more honest with herself than I was. She trusted herself and her feelings before she trusted the beautiful lies we were been fed at school and catechism. Eventually, my attempts to have boyfriend failed at age 20 and I started to accept myself. My parents found out thanks to a series of postcards sent from a woman I met at a lesbian discotheque. My father told me that thanks to people like me there was no future for the human race. My mother kicked me out of the house but was happy when I returned a few hours later. Later on, after I realised that happiness cannot come from another person like in Hollywood movies, I started to search myself in Taoism, Buddhism and other philosophies but nothing helped. I started doing yoga, meditation, chanting mantras but I knew there was something bigger that I just couldn't grasp. I started backpacking in Asia and South East Asia felt more like home to me. I couldn't stand India, I got harassed everywhere. I returned to India 3 times. 1992, it was a nightmare, many people died of starvation and their bodies were lined up in Calcutta. In 1996, I got harassed for being a woman travelling with another woman. 2015, I went to Dharamsala Macleodganj to see the Dalai Lama but he wasn't there. I stayed a few months but then decided to fly to Malaysia from New Delhi and the city was unbelievably quiet. In 2019 I did a prolonged water fast in Cambodia, in my apartment. After 2 months, I was taken to the hospital half dead. I saw a beautiful place, completely natural without civilization. I had a body but no thought process nor language. I was splashing water everywhere, playing with another woman. We were like 2 year olds. I felt indescribable joy. When I regained consciousness, I was in my flat in Cambodia. Since then, I have been disabled, it seems like severe multiple sclerosis. I can no longer take care of myself and the reason why I am still alive is because I found the documentary Heal, Ram Dass and Anita Moorjani. Thank you!

日本語の訳嬉しい(^○^)

These old teachings are good for narcissists but not for empathetic codependants. And a lot of these teachers and gurus are narcissistic themselves

If you love abba you should say it's the 70'z have respect

Can you cure me of aphasia, after my stroke?

Hi Anita, very nice video. Question - if you had continued to dress and color your hair like Cindy Lauper, did you plan to live like that for the rest of your life? Also would that have allowed your to earn and care for yourself financially? Was this a concern for your parents besides getting married? Thank you

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My gosh. Your experience with Indian culture is very specific to you. I belong to the same culture. Community. Country and age slot that you belong to. On the contrary brought up in a small town. But I have not such experiences. So please do not make your experiences all about our culture and community. This is my humble request to you Anita. Love you though.