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

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Describe by the media as intensely private. Michael Singer is known for two very different roles.

He's the founder of a multi-million dollar software company, and he's a spiritual author. I

was first introduced to Michael through his beautiful little book called The Untethered Soul.

It's by my bedstand right now. He writes about how he found inner peace and happiness, and

says any one of us can do it too.

So let me just tell you how this came to be. Did I tell you this already? How this came to be?

That I discovered your book. I had about six or seven girlfriends at my ranch in Maui.

I have the blessing of having a lovely ranch space in Maui. And for my birthday, at the

end of this wonderful three or four days, someone handed me Peggy Fitzimans, left on the

kitchen table, the untethered soul, this lovely book.

I thought, oh, okay. And then I saw a Deepak's notes, liner notes, read this book carefully

and you will get more than a glimpse of eternity. I like that.

And the very idea of the untethered soul, so I thought, gee, what is that? The untethered

soul. So I started reading it. First, part one is about awakening consciousness, which

we've talked a lot about on the Oprah show and did a 10 part series with Eckhart Toley

on the web back in 2008. And what I realized is that there are many paths in to understand

this way of consciousness. And you talk about in the very first chapter, the voice in your

head. And you described it in such great terms. I started reading. I didn't put the book

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