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.

Years ago, I invited renowned spiritual teacher Carolyn Mase to be a guest on the Oprah Winfrey

show. I had just been introduced to Carolyn's groundbreaking work on healing and intuition,

and I was so excited about what I'd learned that I couldn't wait to share it with the

audience. I hope they might experience the same spiritual awakening. Unfortunately, that

is not what happened. For the first few minutes, Carolyn and I were totally engrossed in our

conversation about spirituality and nurturing the soul, but eventually, we reached a point

where I noticed that the people in the audience were looking at us like we were speaking

a foreign language. I stopped the taping and asked if they understood what Carolyn and

I were talking about. One woman bravely stood up and said,

No, Oprah, we really don't. What do you mean, Bass Spirit? Are you talking about Jesus?

No I said, we're talking about you. The woman went on to say that she thought the word

spirit meant something outside of herself similar to how she viewed religion. This was

an epiphany for me. I realized concepts like spirituality and the soul were unfamiliar

ones for many people at that time. We have come a long way since then, but I'm forever

grateful to that woman for speaking up. It is a wonderful reminder that every single person

is at a different stage of their own spiritual evolution, and no path is the same.

We eventually resumed taping, and I asked Carolyn to explain her definition of the word spirit,

and now, years later, in most Super Soul Sunday conversations, I asked that same question,

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