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. She is known as a scholar, a philosopher and a visionary. Jean Houston is a prolific writer who

is traversed this globe lecturing, teaching, consulting with world leaders along the way. She says her

life has been devoted to pushing the boundaries of human potential. I just love that. After six

decades of this work, she's become known as one of the elder spiritual states women of our

time. You are one good looking 75 year old. Thank you. I'm half Sicilian. It's 4,000 years of olive oil.

Is that what it is? Is that what it is or is it your gene pool, your spiritual gene pool? I think

it's a passion for the possible. I think it's living in this which must be the most interesting time

in human history where what we do will make a profound difference as to whether we grow or whether

we perish. And it's that sense of urgency and possibility, the lore of becoming. I think

that keeps me going. I've worked in 108 countries and I see, you know, I'm very positive because

I'm there to see how people come together, how they help each other, how they cross the great

divide of otherness. Are you do you marvel at the breadth and depth of your 75 years here on the

planet? Well, I've been very fortunate. I grew up in a comical family. My father wrote the Bob Hope

Show and all his shows. And I was exposed to, you know, absurdity and laughter as a way of life.

And then I went to 20 schools before I was 12. And I was always told by my mother how lucky I was.

My mother was a Shakespearean actor. So I was as a little child, you know, made to recite,

make me a willow-who-capital-natural gate and call upon my soul within the house. So there was that.

My parents were very kind people. And so they were always in human service in one way or the other.

And then I was a girl scout from the time I was really quite young. And there we... What a generous

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