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Oprah's Super Soul

Elizabeth Gilbert: The Whole Human Experience

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

International best-selling author of the phenomenon “Eat Pray Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert returns to “SuperSoul Sunday” to discuss her latest novel, “City of Girls.” Set in New York City during the 1940s, the epic story follows 19-year-old Vivian Morris as she comes of age during World War II, and follows her all the way through 2010. Elizabeth says Vivian’s quest to find her authentic self and challenge the societal expectations of the time mirrors her own life story. Elizabeth explains why she believes in the importance of creating work that inspires women to be their authentic selves. In a candid and emotional conversation, Elizabeth also provides an update on her personal life, sharing how she finds peace and healing after the death of her best friend and partner, Rayya Elias.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.6

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

0:16.1

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

0:23.1

now.

0:24.1

Oh, girl, do I look like a sweetheart? Oh, bro, how you doing? Good to see you. It's good to see you. You look beautiful.

0:35.1

Oh, so do you. Thank you for having me back. Of course, of course. Good to see you.

0:39.1

It's book of something, girl.

0:41.1

Yeah. So we, welcome. Welcome. Hey. Here we are again. You know, we first met in 2007.

0:49.1

I know so long ago. Yes. Many, many things have happened since then.

0:53.1

Oh my gosh. Your life since 2007. Well, yours too. My life since 2007. To be fair. Your lives, I mean, look at what's happened in that amount of time.

1:03.1

Yeah. Yeah. It's been a lot. The world's life since 2007. The world's life since 2007.

1:08.1

Yeah. A lot of big changes on the macro, macro level.

1:12.1

But I have to say, you know, when I first met you and we were celebrating, reveling, and eat, pray, love, I said,

1:19.1

then that you were a carrier of the light. We could see that in you. And even after all that you've been through love and death and love and everything that you still carry that light.

1:32.1

Oh, thank you so much for saying. So strong in you. Thank you for saying that.

1:36.1

Still so strong in you. It's, it's, it's, that flame has flickered.

1:42.1

You know, like the wick has gone down at various times over the last few years, but honestly, over I, I came here to live a life fully all of it.

1:52.1

And I'll take it. I'll take all of it. I'll take the whole thing because I don't want to miss it. I don't want to have come all this distance to live a human life and miss the experience.

2:01.1

So I just want to show up for the whole ride.

2:04.1

Damn, I love that. You know, I came here to do this. Yeah, you know, all of it. And so you, you just embrace whatever shows up. You embrace it.

2:15.1

Maybe not in the moment. Yeah, that it's actually happening and horrible. But there's even, even then there's something, you know, even in the worst moments of watching Ray I die, there was something I knew.

2:28.1

And it was that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. I'm exactly, this is the worst thing I've ever been in and I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.

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