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

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

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

now.

It's not a news story, but I think it's worth telling one last time. The year was 1998.

I've been promoting the movie Beloved in a live television interview with the late great

Chicago Sontimes film critic Jean Siskel and everything was going perfectly smoothly until

the time came to wrap things up. Tell me, Jean asked, what do you know for sure?

Now this was not my first rodeo. I've asked and been asked an awful lot of questions over

the years, and it isn't often that I find myself at a complete loss for words, but I have

to say the man managed to stop me in my tracks.

Ehh, about the movie, I stammered, knowing full well that he was after something bigger,

deeper, more complex. But trying to stall until I could come up with a semi-coherent

response, no he said, you know what I mean, about you, your life, anything, everything.

Ehh, I know for sure, I know for sure, ehh, I need time to think about that some more,

Jean.

Well, 16 years and a great deal of thought later, it has become the central question of

my life. At the end of the day, what exactly do I know for sure?

I've explored that question in every issue of Omagazine. In fact, what I know for sure

is the name of my monthly column. Thank you, Jean Siskel. And believe me, there are still

plenty of times when an answer does not come easy. What do I know for sure? I know that

if one more editor calls or emails or even sends a smoke signal asking, where is this

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