Answering Life’s Big Questions

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Oprah says in order to experience life, you’ve got to start asking life’s big questions. Each person on earth is charting their own spiritual course. Your soul is as unique as your fingerprint. And the journey to connect to the deepest part of yourself can only be explored by you. As long as you’re asking the right questions, the answers will readily reveal themselves. Most of Oprah's Super Soul conversations end with a series of “big questions.” This podcast is a compilation of answers to those questions from such legendary teachers as: Jack Kornfield, Elizabeth Lesser, Diana Nyad, Arianna Huffington, India.Arie, Mark Nepo, Daniel Pink, Debbie Ford, Eckhart Tolle, Llewellyn Vaughn Lee, Thomas Moore, Pema Chödrön, Iyanla Vanzant, Devon Franklin, Sister Joan Chittister, Dr. Maya Angelou, Nate Berkus, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Gabrielle Bernstein, Charles Eisenstein, President Jimmy Carter, Shonda Rhimes, Jack Canfield, Pastor Wintley Phipps, Pastor A. R. Bernard, Shaka Senghor, Cheryl Strayed, Tracy Morgan, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Timothy Shriver, Louis Schwartzberg and Gretchen Rubin. They all recommend taking time to ask yourself those same big life questions. Answering them just might change your life. Interviews with these talented writers, speakers and thought leaders are excerpted from her Emmy Award-winning show Super Soul Sunday. You can also find this compilation and other insightful conversations, in Oprah’s best-selling book The Wisdom of Sundays.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.0	now.
0:25.1	In order to experience life, you've got to start asking life's big questions. With every
0:32.6	insight you've experienced from the wisdom of Sundays, you can see that each person on
0:38.5	earth is charting their own spiritual course. Your soul is as unique as your fingerprint,
0:48.2	and the journey to connect to the deepest part of yourself can only be explored by you.
0:56.3	I have cleaned great understanding from all of these conversations and come to know that
1:03.0	as long as you're asking the right questions of yourself, the answers will readily reveal
1:09.8	themselves.
1:11.8	Who do you want to be? How can you allow who you want to be to thrive in all aspects of
1:20.2	your life?
1:22.1	I often think of this principle when I'm talking with my girls who've graduated from
1:26.1	the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. I am committed to supporting them
1:30.9	through college, and often that simply means being there to listen. This is the time when
1:38.3	they start asking, what should I major in, what do I want to do with my life? I tell them
1:44.5	a career is not a life. The essential question is who do you want to be? And so now I ask
1:51.6	you, how can you allow who you want to be? Not just what you want to do, who you want
1:59.0	to be to emerge in all aspects of your life.
2:04.8	Just conversations on Super Soul Sunday end with a series of big questions for each guest.
2:10.9	Take the time to ask yourself these same things, and I promise the life vision waiting to
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