Oprah Winfrey: Love and Connection

Oprah's Super Soul

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4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Everything we do, every relationship we have, succeeds or fails based on our level of true spiritual connection with others. How do we get back on track when we find ourselves disconnected from people? In this episode of “Super Soul,” Oprah sits down with acclaimed spiritual teachers—including Jill Bolte Taylor, Dr. Maya Angelou, Sister Joan Chittister, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Zukav and Linda Francis, Meagan Good, Rob and Kristen Bell, President Jimmy Carter, Pastor Wintley Phipps, Brené Brown, Tracy Morgan, Phil Jackson, Shawn Achor, Gloria Steinem, Bryan Stevenson, Malala Yousafzai, and Elie Wiesel—to discover the steps we all can take to find creative ways to nurture the bonds of love and a connection with the people in our lives, and then gradually expanding that to the rest of the world. Interviews with these talented writers, speakers and thought leaders are excerpted from Oprah’s Emmy Award-winning show “Super Soul Sunday.” You can also find this compilation and other insightful conversations in Oprah’s 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.
0:24.8	Chapter 10 Love and Connection. I believe three of the most important words anyone can say
0:32.3	are not, I love you, but I hear you. At this moment in our history, there is a painful
0:39.7	divide separating the human experience. As I grow more deeply in my spiritual practice,
0:45.8	I know the common thread we all share is a mutual desire for a connection and contentment.
0:54.5	It's up to each one of us to begin the work to renew and repair that divine universal bond.
1:01.3	I like to visualize the communication in any relationship as a dance. One person takes
1:06.8	a step forward, the other steps back, two energies moving in harmony, aligned and united,
1:13.6	until there's a misstep or break in the connection. If the breakdown is not addressed and corrected,
1:20.5	in that moment both people wind up in a tangle of confusion. When spiritual teacher Adi Ashante
1:27.3	joined me on Super Soul Sunday, he described that rhythm we create between one another as
1:33.4	the intuitive presence in one soul, recognizing the intuitive presence in another. His lesson
1:40.7	is that every day in every moment our energy is seeking a way to connect with every other
1:50.8	energy we encounter. And when we feel that joyful spark, it means that we have fully
1:59.6	aligned presence to presence, to the universal source that exists in us all. Everything we
2:09.9	do, every relationship we have, succeeds or fails based on our level of true spiritual
2:19.9	connection. So how do we get back in step when we find ourselves disconnected and retreating
2:25.7	to separate corners of the dance floor? I've learned over the years that the most effective
2:31.3	method to find common ground is to approach the person with heartfelt compassion and ask,
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