Super Soul Special: Elizabeth Gilbert, Part 2: What Is a Soul Mate?

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Original Air Date: November 29, 2017 Oprah's conversation with New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert continues. Elizabeth shares what she knows for sure about love, happiness and what it means to be a soul mate. Elizabeth says, "A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention." She also opens up about her decision not to have children and its impact on her life spiritually.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most
0:07.8	valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey
0:16.5	to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:24.4	Like many super-solers, Elizabeth Gilbert shares a fascination with American author and mythologist Joseph Campbell.
0:31.3	While deeply inspired by Campbell's work, Elizabeth points out, women are rarely at the center of the story.
0:38.4	Elizabeth says, we all have a calling.
0:41.5	And it's up to us to take the lead in our own story.
0:45.5	Okay, so let's review.
0:46.6	Everybody is on their own hero's journey, whether they know it or not.
0:49.9	They're invited.
0:50.7	They're certainly invited.
0:52.1	Yeah.
0:52.3	You're invited.
0:53.7	So it begins with a call.
0:55.2	Yeah.
0:56.1	Then you can accept the call or deny the call.
0:59.0	Right. Is the story ends when you refuse the call? Yeah. It's over.
1:01.6	That's like, choose your own ending. You just chose it. Your book is one page long.
1:05.0	Yes. When you deny the call, though, is it the same as denying destiny?
1:08.6	I think so. Well, I mean, no, because then you chose your destiny.
1:11.6	Yeah. So it's not like everybody gets a destiny. Right. It's just that you got a really kind of aborted one.
1:16.4	It's like, yeah, you deny the call, so you deny the call, and then whatever you're on, that then
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