Well, it is so nice to be with you all here on the Oprah podcast. I thank you for joining me.

I know many people are feeling a sense of unease right now. Maybe you are struggling with navigating so much disruption. I mean, it's hard to watch the news. I mean, I've pulled way back from the news.

So so much disruption going into the world at work or within your own family. And one of my intentions for this platform is that it is a place for conversation that can uplift, bring some insight, perhaps even enhance your life

and give you a fresher perspective or a new way to think about our collective human experience.

That's why I'm still talking after all of these years.

So for a time such as this, I was thinking to myself, who would be

a great person to talk to about the unease so many of us are feeling right now, uncertainty,

and for good reason? And then I see that one of the great spiritual teachers alive today has

written a new book about exactly what was on my mind

and I know on a lot of yours. It is my pleasure to welcome once again back to my home for the

third time. Father Richard Rohr and his current New York Times bestselling book is called

The Tears of Things. Pro wisdom for an age of outrage.

Beautiful, the tears of things.

I know many people feel that we're living in an age of outrage.

It's everywhere.

Father Richard Rohr was ordained into the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in

1970. He is a Franciscan friar, a world-renowned author, spiritual teacher, theological, and

mystic. I don't care what your religion is. Great love and great suffering. Change the soul.

Awaken the soul.

Father Richard Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico and has written 42 books, including The Best Sellers, Falling Upward and the Universal

Christ.

42 books you've written.

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