Oprah Winfrey: FORGIVENESS

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4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Oprah Winfrey says that for many people searching for peace and purpose, one of the biggest obstacles can be the struggle to forgive. Especially if one has suffered trauma, abuse or personal betrayals, forgiveness can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. The journey to releasing resentments and vengeful thoughts, and the letting go of all hope for a better past, are probably some of the biggest spiritual challenges any of us will ever face. Oprah says if we accept these challenges, the rewards are great because on the other side of forgiveness is freedom. In this episode of Super Soul, Oprah sits down with such luminaries as Dr. Maya Angelou, Karen Armstrong, Marianne Williamson, Adyashanti, Mark Nepo, Wayne Dyer, Gabrielle Bernstein, Don Miguel Ruiz, Tracey Jackson, Shaka Senghor, Bryan Stevenson and Michael Singer to discover what it means to truly forgive and the steps we all can take to find personal freedom. These interviews with talented writers, speakers and thought leaders are excerpted from her Emmy Award-winning show Super Soul Sunday. You can also find this compilation and other insightful conversations, in Oprah’s New York Times best-selling book The Wisdom of Sundays.

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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	For so many people, searching for peace and purpose, the most debilitating source of their
0:31.1	pain has been the struggle to forgive.
0:36.2	Having experienced the trauma of childhood abuse and personal portrayals at different
0:40.1	points of my life, I have great compassion for anyone facing what might seem like an insurmountable
0:47.0	hurdle.
0:48.4	The journey to release all grudges to relinquish the quest for revenge and to let go of the fantasy
0:56.1	of what might have been is one of the most difficult spiritual challenges we will ever
1:02.0	face.
1:03.6	But I promise you, it is also the most rewarding because the other side of forgiveness is freedom.
1:14.5	There was a time when I believed the act of forgiveness meant accepting the offender
1:19.6	and by doing so, condoning the act.
1:22.9	I didn't understand that the true purpose of forgiveness is to stop allowing whatever
1:29.9	that person did to affect how I live my life now.
1:35.5	I only began to see a different path for myself after an expert on the Oprah Winfrey show,
1:40.6	Dr. Gerald G. Jempolsky shared his definition.
1:45.2	He said, Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different.
1:56.9	Those words gave me goosebumps then and now.
2:01.0	This was a transcendent moment for me, bigger than any kind of aha.
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