I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

now.

Over the years, we did many shows with people who showed us how anger set them back, how

holding on to the past set them back.

And I can't forgive her and I think about it every day and I'm so angry because the damage

is done.

And I blame each and every one of them, everyone that had anything to do with it.

And I can't forgive him for what he did.

This is what I know for sure. I know that if you allow the past to define your present

that you never actually really get to live, the life that you're meant to live because

you're always holding on to what was and always holding and defining yourself by what was

or what should have been or what could have been.

And one of the best lessons for me with this is learning that revenge is another way that

the ego shows itself.

When you think that you deserve to be treated a certain way, you think you deserve to have

things a certain way, you think that you deserve, deserve, deserve, deserve and other people

have done you wrong instead of, again, living from the true self.

Now we all know Terry McMillan when she wrote, Stella got a groove back and so many women

love that story because it allowed them to think of themselves as still sexually vital

and being attractive to younger men and doing your own thing and allowing yourself to

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