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Oprah's Super Soul

Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Author, activist and Benedictine nun Sister Joan Chittister discusses her newest book, The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage. In a powerful conversation, Sister Joan defines what it means to be a prophet in today's modern world, and challenges us to combat complacency and apathy in our own lives. She outlines the key steps we can all take to lift America (and the world) out of its current state of polarization and political disarray. Rather than wait for others to solve the problems of inequality, injustice and poverty, Sister Joan explains why it is both our moral and spiritual responsibility to take action ourselves, making the world a better place for all.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.6

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.1

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.1

now.

0:24.1

All right, come on in. May I say you look healthier, stronger and more vibrant and radiant

0:32.0

than you did the last time we sat down here four or five years ago?

0:35.2

Well, I think you're, I think that's right. There was something brewing physically then.

0:39.1

I was a lot more tired than I realized. Really?

0:41.1

I'm much healthier now. Yeah, I can feel it. I can sense it. Yeah. And I swim every day.

0:46.6

You still, I was going to ask you, were you leaving this conversation and you're flying

0:51.8

to go to speaking engagement 82 years old? Yeah. What gives you your energy?

0:58.4

I don't want to be corny, but it is life. You know, I live for the fulfillment of life,

1:06.5

not just in myself, but in others. So when I get up in the morning, I always have a goal.

1:12.4

I think purpose is the definition of the life well lived.

1:16.0

I believe that so strongly. And you've written over 50 books and this one, I think, is a design

1:26.2

for this moment in time. It's called The Time Is Now, A Call to Uncommon Courage.

1:33.8

And I can feel from the writing of it that there was something in you that was driven to write

1:39.4

this. This isn't just a book you're fulfilling because your publisher says you need time for

1:44.5

another book. What happened? Well, what happened is what's happening in the United States.

1:50.9

I feel very strongly that the country as a country and the globe as a globe is at a cross-over

1:58.4

moment in time. Yes. And I've been dealing with that phrase in my head for four or five years now.

2:05.6

We are leaving. We have already left one form of life that you and I were taught from first

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