Life First Speaks to You in a Whisper

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Oprah looks back at her interview with Allison Jacobs and Lisa Williams, the two U.C. Berkeley campus officers who acted on instinct and helped rescue Jaycee Lee Dugard. Jaycee had been missing for 18 years. Through this powerful story and others, Oprah talks about how life first speaks to you in a whisper and explains why if we don't listen to that whisper, life can get out of control. Oprah also shares how her life has spoken to her in a whisper and how it affected the decisions she’s made.

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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.
0:25.0	You know, in all of the years of doing the Oprah show, there were many days that I sat in
0:30.5	my chair across from one or two or five or six or seven people and I would be so frustrated
0:38.7	because I just wanted to shake people sometimes and say, why didn't you pay attention to your
0:48.6	life?
0:49.6	I said on the show probably the producers tell me that they counted 33 times, but I know
0:54.8	I thought it at least a thousand times.
0:57.3	I would say listening to your life as it whispers to you first so that it does not have to knock
1:04.5	you upside the head with a brick or come crashing down on you as a brick wall is one of the greatest
1:12.9	principles of life because there are many things that happen in life that are beyond
1:19.1	our control, natural disasters, death, unexplained events, but there are also many, many, many
1:28.0	things in life which we can control and become out of control because you're just not paying
1:35.0	attention.
1:36.0	You are sleepwalking through your life and I have seen this so many times on the show.
1:40.9	I wanted to take the guests and go, we're too to explain attention.
1:45.1	So this is what I've learned and how I've explained it to myself.
1:51.0	Life whispers to you all the time.
1:54.3	Your life is speaking to you all around from the time you wake up in the morning and every
1:59.7	single experience that's coming into your personal space, into your physical space.
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