Documenting divine providence | Guillaume Levy-Lambert | TEDxFoggyBottom

Guillaume wasn’t very religious until an extraordinary encounter with Roy Lichtenstein’s Desk Calendar painting convinced him that he had witnessed a moment of divine providence. His resulting journey connected him with a global community of people, each of whom shared a similar affinity for Desk Calendar and unprecedented connections with one another.
Guillaume is the co-founder of Art Porters gallery in Singapore (www.artporters.com) and of the MaGMA Collection (www.magma.sg). A former investment banker, then regional CEO of a major advertising agency, with more than 30 years experience in Asia, Guillaume is also the founder of Tyna (www.tyna.sg), a consultancy with a mission of inspiring and guiding re-inventions. An active member of YPO, Guillaume is a graduate of HEC Paris (M.Sc. Management 1982), and participated in programs at NYU’s Stern graduate business school, ESADE in Barcelona and Stanford University. He received the Philips Scientific Prize for the Young (1979), Campaign Asia Pacific’s accolade for best advertising network head (2004), and the award of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (2009). If you would like to view Guillaume’s short film Evidence, please visit www.magma.sg/ev...
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[@schoolyb1002]

All morning I've been searching for the meaning of Divine Providence. Watching video after video. Then finally, it clicks! Thank you so much for providing me with clarity. Wonderful speech.

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thank you, Brandy :)

[@alisaheer2673]

Great speach... Guillaume, Thank you very much.. I was very much exited to meet like you and other sibblings...

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

hey thanks Ali! wonderful connecting with you and all the others born on 21 May, 1962

[@SushobhanMukherjee]

This is fascinating. Thank you, Guillaume.

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thank you Sushoban!

[@e.119]

Well done ! Great job Guillaume (-:

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

merci Eric !

[@anneeisenberg8963]

I love it! Deep, meaningful, emotional, witty, Guillaume comes across ...

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

merci Anne !

[@stefk]

great talk! funny how they called that number from that painting which led to so many other things! interesting from Stefanos, Australia Goodluck with the gallery in Singapore

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thank you Stef! feel free to call as well!

[@TheNeoKeleLims]

thank you

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

hey thank you!

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thank you, dear Swee Lin!

[@davidtheel5352]

It's True. I have dreams that usually match to an event in 2 days. Though sometimes longer. I have asked for, while awake, synchronistic signs that manifest. Here's the rub. I can't do this. I can't make it happen. I can only participate. Something divine does it. Divine Providence. Which means I can't even ask for it. How could I know what can happen? I simply go along. And yet I did ask for them? Do you understand what that means? We certainly have free will. But what about the choices which pass before our eye. That from which we chose. Thoughts, that which we think, imagine, or given. Something of a coexistence I should think. No? It's happening to you to. We're playing in an orchestra. We need to try and get on the same page. Harmony.

[@davidtheel5352]

Nice line on love Guillaume. "Play on Love" (Jeff Star). Sorry about stiff prose, trying to get back in love and to go short. To add, I asked for very specific things. When upset and writing on the necessity of imagination in reality. Imagine a trip and make it happen, plan, I asked for a sign to continue. I asked for a particular song to play on the radio as I planned to leave in minutes in my car. I had a bad time of getting there until I realized that I needed to give opportunity for providence to synchronize. So I tried to calm my frustration at getting my stuff together before I left and take my time. "Saint Charles". Some time later than I had planned, in my car, about to turn on the radio, I told myself that if the song is there it doesn't prove anything. It was you know. One of John's songs. You can imagine which one. "Ride the Tiger". Wishing to catch someone synchronously with a song. I wonder.

[@davidtheel5352]

Just ran across something quite helpful. Can't vouch for it all. But see/search "Divine Providence revealed". "Divine Providence #70 (Rogers(2003)) New Christian Bible Study. Swedenborg's Works, Divine Providence #70. Until you perceive it in your life, you can't believe it. For me, it was a synchronistic event given to me in my thoughts unknowingly until fruition. Reinforced by dreams of the future where it couldn't be predicted that I would even find myself in the proper place to even witness the event. I happened upon events. I should say I was lead unknowingly until the actual occurrence. I'm more than often late. The divine do me better than I can myself. Synchronously that is. As consciousness theories go, from our point of view, it's about as attractive as quantum theory was to the early scientists. This seems more clearly, at least in the basic implication of more than ourselves, True. Lucid. Show less

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thanks for sharing David :)

[@rose-mariestolberg7889]

Cher Guillaume, Je suis très enthousiasmée par ta prestation. L' art est ce qui élargit notre Compréhension et nous met dans le courant de la vie, là où elle est large, grande...merveilleuse. Belle journée à toi, rose-marie

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

merci Rose-Marie d'avoir pris le temps de partager ta réaction, et de ton souhait. Ce fut une belle journée, illuminée par ton sourire :)

[@olarewajuelizabeth907]

Good job Guillaume.

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thank you, Elizabeth, my cosmic sibling!

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thank you, dear cosmic sister! so wonderful that you were born on that very same date, which is front and center of "Desk Calendar".

[@ShamitKhemka]

Outstanding. Wonderful commentary on what I truly believe in !

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

thank you Shamit!

[@5silea]

great success!

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

спасибо

[@mariehelenemansard6520]

Bravo Guillaume, c'est vraiment impressionnant!

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

merci Marie-Hélène !

[@avipemper9571]

@@guillaumelevy-lambert8183Shalom! I was already feeling gratitude for having crossed familial paths with you now listening to your brilliant talk I appreciate even more how fortunate I am. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😇😇🫶🫶

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

@@avipemper9571 thank you! what a pleasure to have met you last week! looking forward to more shared smachot! G-d bless you and all the Marks in the world!

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

@@avipemper9571 thank you, I am blessed too to have met you.

[@arlinegeorge6967]

Yes divine providence comes to our rescue specially when we ask. With heart felt intention all our dreams will come to life. I am being abused by the catholic Church nuns from India who I went seeking help but instead of helping they're being cruel. With divine help my death n hope raising goes on loving life. Great talk Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.

[@FatcatartRu42]

very good speech, Zarathustra approves!

[@guillaumelevy-lambert8183]

grateful and proud of Zarathustra's approval!