Super Soul Special: Shirley MacLaine: A Legendary Seeker

Oprah's Super Soul

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Original Air Date: October 1, 2017 During her iconic 60-year Hollywood career, Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine was also a pioneer by being outspoken in her beliefs about spirituality, meditation and reincarnation. Oprah calls Shirley one of her “great spiritual teachers.” This episode is a continuation of the metaphysical conversation Oprah and Shirley have been having together for more than 30 years. 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 that one of the most valuable
0:08.3	gifts you can give yourself is time, 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. I really do find it hard to believe that just three
0:26.8	months after launching my talk show in 1986 there I was talking to Shirley
0:32.4	McClain on national daytime television about
0:36.8	spirituality. That kind of material even more so than today was really considered
0:42.1	out there.
0:43.0	Not your typical talk show kind of subject.
0:45.0	I invited her to the show because I had read and loved
0:50.0	her memoir out on a limb while filming the Color Purple.
0:53.8	The International Best Seller detail Shirley's lifelong spiritual quest, and reading her story
1:00.2	was life changing for me. In fact, her writings helped inspire my own spiritual
1:06.9	awakening. Shirley has always felt a keen connection to the world beyond.
1:11.5	Over the course of her remarkable career,
1:14.0	Shirley has appeared in more than 60 movies,
1:17.0	and she's been nominated for more than 100 various awards.
1:22.0	She has won an Emmy, seven Golden Globes, and of course who could
1:26.4	forget her Oscar-winning performance as Aurora Greenway in terms of
1:31.0	endearment. Today on the cusp of 80,
1:34.0	she is as outspoken, opinionated, and sharp as ever.
1:37.5	Never one to accept the status quo.
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