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Dr. Alan Lightman

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  1. “Each couple here has something in common. Cheating. All of you will be going out on dates with a person you cheated with. Where's my man? We'll find out if you and your partner can work through your obstacles. You just disrespect.”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I'm Oprah Winfrey, and you've been listening to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. You can follow Super Soul on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. If you haven't yet, go to Apple Podcasts and subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. Join me next week for another Super Soul Conversation. Thank you for listening.”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Well, I think what you said at the beginning of the article in The Atlantic, the virus is a reminder of something lost long ago is what we want to take away for this call to unite. You said in rebuilding a broken world, we will have the chance to choose a less hurried life. That's what I want”

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  4. “While this unprecedented global event that Tim Shriver dreamed up, the call to unite is, of course, an ambitious one. And we know everyone is struggling to take care of their own health, take care of their own families. As you mentioned, just what it takes every day to stay present. In what ways do you think it is now easier for us to be united?”

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  5. “Because you say that each of us, this is a time for introspection for us as individuals, each of us has our own inner life. Of course, we all know that. But you say our nation also has an inner self. I've always felt this as well. And I've interviewed thousands of people over the years, and I felt it underneath people's individual lives, of course, and individual decisions, there is a collective decision, a collective consciousness. Is that what you're talking about?”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “I like this line that you wrote about being on lockdown. You said by forcing many of us to slow down, to spend more time and personal reflection away from the noise and the heave of the world, with our quiet time, more privacy, more stillness, we have an opportunity to think about who we are as individuals and as a society. You know, both the moment that you described in the boat, the moment that I was talking about walking on the road in Maui, both came out of stillness. That's what I remember about that time is that it was so still I felt I was the stillness. The stillness was in me, and we were like all one. And so I think this opportunity to be still, you're on to something.”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “What this time has done, it has allowed us to see that the people who you for many people overlooked and felt. We're just a part of your daily life, how necessary Everyone is for your life. Be lived comfortably and well.”

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  8. “Yeah, you know, I'm thinking that this pandemic, I think of it as a massive reset for the world. And I know that you believe that we have a chance to choose a less hurried life now. You wrote about that in the Atlantic article. And you write that we've been living too fast. We have sold our inner selves to the devil of speed, efficiency, money, hyperconnectivity, progress. I know you wrote a whole book on this topic called In Praise of Wasting Time, but this time that we have right now, do you think that this is a perfect time to be reset and to do what we're talking about be more united?”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “What is that Dr. Lightman? Is that just a glimpse? That's just a glimpse of what is, right? That's a glimpse at the full present moment that we speak so much of. That's just a tiny little glimpse.”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Well, you know, it's interesting what you describe in the boat, I had an experience like that in 2006. I was walking along a road in Maui in an area where the clouds had come down and it was like we were walking through the clouds. You could see only through the clouds just a sliver of a moon and it looked like the moon and my friend said, oh, that looks like the dreamworks moon. You could put a boy up there with a fishing pole and you could just see the sliver of the moon. And as we're walking, it became so still that I tell you, just thinking about it makes my eyes water, it became so still that I felt that thing that you're talking about in the boat where I felt a connection between all time, all life, all it just felt, I felt expanded, I felt like I was a part of the clouds. Thing you're talking about”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Pretty amazing coming from a scientist. So we're living in a world now and a time where scientific facts, as we can tell from every news organization, are more important than ever from all the information that we're getting. We're living in a time where scientific fact is so important. But you say that there is actually room for us to understand that there is an invisible and, as we just said, unprovable but real connection between all living things and the universe. Can you explain a little bit more about that?”

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  12. “Because science is always out to prove a thing, and you're saying that just the experience itself for you. Anyone else who has that experience that is proof enough?”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “So, before we talk about that article in the Atlantic, and I was just sharing with you before we started that the Atlantic is doing a great job on COVID, I mean, I think there are articles, they're so nonpartisan, you just feel the truth in them. I wanted to ask you about an experience that you wrote about in one of your books called Searching for the Stars on an Island in Maine. So you were on a boat at night on the ocean when you had a transformative, almost transcendent experience. Share that with our audience, will you?”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Thanks for joining us for this call to unite and also on Super Soul Conversations. From the moment I read that article that you wrote in The Atlantic recently titled The Virus is a Reminder of Something Lost Long Ago, perfect title, might I say. I was so moved by your words I've been wanting to talk with you about it. So I'm glad we had this opportunity. So before we get started, I just want to introduce you all to tell you who Dr. Leitman is. He's a physicist, also a humanities professor at MIT. You're known as one of the few scientists who's also a bestselling writer of novels and one who embraces spirituality. That's what got my attention a scientist who embraces spirituality. Sounds like to me you're a Renaissance man for times such as this”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “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. So Dr. Leitman, Dr. Alan Leitman, nice to meet you here remotely.”

    2023-11-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Dr. Alan Lightman: How to Lead a Less Hurried Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source