Super Soul Special: Oprah Winfrey: Grace and Gratitude

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Original Air Date: January 27, 2021 One of Oprah’s favorite quotes comes from German mystic Meister Eckhart. He said, “If the only prayer you say in your entire life is ‘thank you,’ that will be enough.” Oprah says when she started keeping a gratitude journal more than 20 years ago, it was one of the most important things she’s done. The daily practice of writing down five things to be grateful for balanced her life in subtle and inspiring ways. "It sounds simple,” Oprah says, “but when you go through the day staying conscious about what you put on your gratitude list, it shifts the lens through which you see the world.” In this episode of Super Soul, Oprah sits down with luminaries like Mark Nepo, Ram Dass, Elizabeth Lesser, Reverend Ed Bacon, Tracey Jackson, Paul Williams, Geneen Roth, Cheryl Strayed, Caroline Myss, Gretchen Rubin, Shawn Achor, Marie Forleo, Lynne Twist, Louie Schwartzberg and Norman Lear to discover that the practice of gratitude can elevate our lives to a state of grace. 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. Ram Dass passed away in 2019. Norman Lear passed away in 2023. 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.
0:02.0	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:12.0	taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.0	starts right now.
0:24.7	The great blessing of being broken open
0:26.8	is understanding that no experience,
0:29.4	nothing that's happened to you is wasted.
0:32.1	Challenges are just life's way of moving you
0:35.2	forward in another direction sometimes.
0:38.0	Learning to live from this place of gratitude
0:41.5	helps you see past the pain until you reach a state of grace you
0:44.9	never even imagined. I talk a lot about paradox because I have found paradox the
0:50.9	tension between seeming opposites they've always been great teachers for me.
0:55.6	We can't deny our humanness, in fact we need to accept our human, having an open heart means
1:02.1	feeling it all.
1:03.5	So, you know, I was just writing the other day
1:06.0	about being grateful, thanking God
1:08.8	that my experiences have hollowed me out like a hollow bone, but I was never thankful while I was being
1:16.9	hollowed out. And I think that's very human. So I think the thing for me, when I have experienced difficult things with family or friends or in life situations, it's very hard, you know, I certainly wasn't thankful to the pain in my stomach when I was recently ill.
1:34.8	I didn't want it to be there.
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