Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Original Air Date: May 6, 2020 Oprah Winfrey talks with Dr. Alan Lightman, an MIT professor of humanities, physicist and best-selling author. Dr. Lightman is one of the rare scientists who also embraces spirituality after having a transcendent experience while on a boat on the ocean. He discusses why he believes the COVID-19 pandemic offered us an opportunity to lead a less hurried life. He shares why stillness is so important to our daily lives and explains how our country now has a chance to nurture what he calls its “inner self.” Dr. Lightman also discusses his article “The Virus Is a Reminder of Something Lost Long Ago,” published in The Atlantic. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe
0:07.1	that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to
0:13.6	be more fully present. Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the
0:19.7	deeper world around us starts right now. So Dr. Lightman, Dr. Alan Lightman,
0:26.6	nice to meet you here remotely. Nice to meet you, Oprah. Thanks for joining us
0:31.6	for this call to unite and also on Super Soul Conversations. From the moment I
0:37.6	read that article that you wrote in the Atlantic recently titled The Viruses
0:43.1	a Reminder of Something Lost Long ago. Perfect title might I say. I was so moved
0:48.3	by your words. I've been wanting to talk with you about it. So I'm glad we had
0:53.4	this opportunity. So before we get started, I just want to introduce you all to
0:57.9	tell you who Dr. Lightman is. He's a physicist, also a humanities professor at MIT.
1:05.9	You're known as one of the few scientists who's also a best-selling writer of
1:10.6	novels and one who embraces spirituality. That's what got my attention. A
1:15.5	scientist who embraces spirituality. Sounds like to me your
1:21.4	Renaissance man for times such as this. Well the world has gotten more and more
1:26.6	interdisciplinary. So we need people that can cross disciplines and talk to
1:32.6	each other. So before we talk about that article in the Atlantic and I was just
1:36.6	sharing with you before we started that the Atlantic is doing a great job on
1:40.0	COVID. I mean I think their articles are so nonpartisan. You just feel the
1:45.6	truth in them. I wanted to ask you about an experience that you wrote about in
1:49.9	one of your books called Searching for the Stars on an Island in Maine. So
1:53.9	you were on a boat at night on the ocean when you had a transformative almost
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