James Arthur Ray
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113 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Which I'm grateful for. Believe it or not, I'm really grateful for it. I don't want to do it again. Don't get me wrong. But I am grateful for it because it woke me up and it got me back to what's truly important.
There's always, there's a greater power that can come through you. than anything that can come from you. So what we work at, and we work, you ask about a relationship, we work hard at it. I mean, we work on it every bit as much as we do on our physical fitness and health, every bit as much as we do on our business. We make time and we focus on that.
and like one thing one little ritual we have every single morning i get up at 3 a.m every day merce gets up at 3 30 she's a little bit of a slacker but nonetheless i have my morning prayer and meditation time and i do some stretching and she reads and i read the bible in the morning And then I come down from downstairs and we have our tea time. And it's not we don't have our phones.
We're not doing have the TV on. We're not distracted. We have a conversation every single morning. We have a conversation every single dinner. We have dinner together. We don't have our phones. We don't have television on. We have a conversation and we make that sacred and we work on that every bit as much as we do on our business or on our health and fitness. It's all important.
Everything counts. And when you do become that unit that she spoke of, then you are unstoppable because God is coming through you and it doesn't have to come from you. And hopefully that makes sense to you.
It definitely does. When you hit rock bottom, It's a gift. It's a gift wrapped in pain and a gift wrapped in difficulty, but it's a gift because when you hit rock bottom, you finally are standing on a firm foundation from which to grow. And you get, I had seven foreclosures, which begs the question, why the heck did I have seven properties?
I mean, I had justified it all in my mind and it sure seemed right at the time, but I had all these things that got wiped off and my $20 million, I'm sorry, my $10 million went Inc. 500 company got destroyed. It went away. It took me 20 years to build it and it was gone like that.
And yet there's some real great liberation in that because now, like you said, your friend mentioned brick by brick, I have nothing but blue sky to determine who am I going to be And what am I going to do in James Arthur Ray 3.0? And one of those things obviously includes Beersheba. And I wouldn't, I was a single guy living in a 7,500 square foot estate in Beverly Hills.
What kind of sense does that make? It makes no sense. And I was on the road over 250 days a year. And I was only there on weekends, Saturday and Sunday, I was in my home and then I was off on a plane Monday. And running around the country and around the world. And so if God wanted me to do that again, then I'm certainly open to whatever God's plan is.
And yet life is very different now and I wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I wouldn't go back for anything because I've been given a great gift and I've been able to rebuild and you have to keep the faith and you have to keep moving forward and you have to realize why you're doing what you're doing. deeply be honest with yourself about that.
And then God can work through you and you can do whatever you're here to do. And you can find that
I think it was inspiration. I really love the word inspiration because the prefix in from the Latin means to be. So in spiritus is to be filled with spirit. And I was inspired with that title. a long time ago, as you mentioned. And yet I'm really grateful. Let me back up and I'll tell you another story that's similar. I visualized being on the Oprah Winfrey show for two decades, two decades.
When I was home, working from home, I would turn on the television when she had her show and I would watch her asking questions of other people. And I would pretend that I was on the couch and I was answering the questions. I didn't do it every day. But I held that vision for two decades. And then I eventually got on the Oprah Winfrey show a couple of times.
And what I realized, John, is that if I had gotten on and there was a lot of times when I was frustrated, I was like, I've held this vision for so long. I'm working so hard. And why is it not coming through? And then when I got there, I realized it's perfect because if I had been there when I thought I wanted to be there, I wouldn't have been ready.
I wouldn't have had the same information, the same knowledge, the same experience. And the same is true with God, money and sex. When I got inspired to write that, if I had written that book back then, It wouldn't have been the same book. That was 2006.
It wouldn't have been the same book because what I talk about in God, Money and Sex are a lot of current events that have unfolded for us here in America and in the world since 2020. And obviously those things weren't happening in 2006. And so I realized it was all in divine timing. And God's timing is always divine timing.
And so that's where you have to have faith and you have to just keep the vision and keep moving forward. But it had been burning inside of me and it was just perfect. I mean, when I wrote it, it was truly inspired and it just flowed. And so I'm really grateful that I didn't write it in 2006. My agent shut me down and she was absolutely right in doing that.
And Harmonic Wealth was a New York Times bestseller that was the right book for the right time.
Well, I'm a big Joseph Campbell fan, so thank you for bringing him up. Mythology is the history, it's not literal history per se, it's the history of the human soul. And so these great myths that he talks so much about, and he did all this research, as you well know, across many traditions. And I do talk about that. The subtitle of my book, God, Money, and Sex,
is understanding and mastering the three human dilemmas. And we submit to you that God, money, and sex are the three most major human dilemmas in our world. There have been more wars and more injustice committed in the name of God than any other reason. money, it creates some of the greatest fear and pain. It's one of the biggest reasons that we have disconnects in relationships.
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