Maria Shriver, Part 1: Reflections, Prayers and Meditations for a Meaningful Life

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Maria Shriver, the Peabody- and Emmy-award winning journalist, producer and best-selling author, sits down with Oprah to share inspiring quotations, prayers and reflections featured in her number one New York Times best-selling book "I've Been Thinking...: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life." Oprah and Maria discuss their nearly 40-year friendship and the lessons they both learned from Maria's mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Maria looks back on the personal challenges she's experienced, including how she found the strength to navigate her mother's death and the grief that came afterward. Maria speaks candidly about growing up as a member of the powerful Kennedy family, and opens up about seeking her own passion and purpose beyond the legacy of her famous forebears. Maria is the founder of the Women's Alzheimer's Movement, a nonprofit committed to researching why women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer's disease and, in so doing, finding a cure.

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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.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:24.9	Can you believe that you're a little book that's on my nightstand and now many people's
0:29.0	nightstands. I've been thinking reflections, reflections, it's just reflections, it's
0:34.0	prayers and meditations for a meaningful life. Yes.
0:37.9	Is still on the best cellar's list? I can't believe it. I actually, I started telling my
0:44.3	brother I have this little book and he said stop calling it a little book. Yes.
0:48.5	And that was actually a pivot for me because he said it's actually a deep book. It's a helpful
0:53.8	book. Don't call it a little book because that's what I was describing it as. I said I
0:57.8	wanted to end up on people's nightstands or in their bathrooms. Yes. Because then you pick
1:02.4	it up and put it down. It's too deep for the bathroom for me. It's too deep for the bathroom.
1:06.3	I don't want anything to. You want to click in the bathroom. You want to click.
1:11.7	You were that joy book you gave me years ago. That's right. That's what I want that.
1:15.3	Because it's one page and it's got some pretty flowers and you just a sentence. But so many
1:19.6	people have sent me pictures of this book on their nightstands. Oh really? Yeah. Really
1:24.4	like next to a flower next to a telephone just sitting by itself. And that was how I pictured
1:30.7	it. That's what I envisioned for it. Look at you manifesting. Yes. Look at me manifesting
1:36.0	finally. I think it's beautiful. And you know what? As I was preparing to talk to you today,
1:41.4	I actually just went through each chapter for those of you who haven't read the book yet.
1:48.0	It's just so beautifully conceived. I am who I choose to become. Seeing the jewel inside,
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