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I never knew there is a difference between the words "Inspiration" and "Motivation" until the day I attended Dr John Demartini's talk.

Dr John Demartini, one of the illuminaries featured in the runaway success, The Secret Movie, was recently in Singapore to give a talk and conduct a workshop. Dorothea from the event organiser, Global1Events, had kindly invited us for the interesting and enlightening talk. It was full-house with about a thousand attendees in the hall. Such was the potential of the “market” for metaphysics, I thought. Or perhaps many people just wanted to manifest more money and materiality.

Among the many things Demartini mentioned, what left the deepest impression on me was how he explained he was often misunderstood to be a motivational speaker when he is really an inspirational speaker, teacher and philosopher.

The difference which Demartini pointed out is that the motivator imposes his values on you while the inspirer helps you to find your own values.