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Gary Zukav

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“Need to choose love over fear Thank you, Gary, for your timeless wisdom. Gary Zukov's books, The Seed of the Soul, and his most recent Universal Human are available anywhere you buy your books, as I express throughout this podcast and throughout many years of growing in my own spirituality. His works have been so helpful to me in opening up the aperture of what is possible and what is possible by following your soul's purpose here on earth and allowing your personality to become aligned with what your soul actually came here to do. That's the goal. Thank you to my guests, Julianne Huff, to Todd, to Alicia. We'll talk again next week here on the OPA podcast. Go well, everyone. You can subscribe to the Oprah Podcast on YouTube and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. I'll see you next week. Thanks, everybody.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful result. Thank you so much, Laura. Thank you so much. Great to hear from you. While we were producing this episode, before I even had the chance to tell Gary that I was recording this podcast about some of his greatest teachings for me, he sent me an email because that's how the universe works. I was thinking about him. He was thinking about me. And I want to read part of what he wrote me because I think it's a really important message to hear during this us versus them mentality that is hurting all of us. He said our evolution requires us to love. How could it be otherwise? We cannot change a world that is built on manipulation and control with more of the same. When we lash out against darkness, we ourselves enter the darkness. When we have no compassion for those who have no compassion, what is the difference between us and them?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know what I think is so wonderful. What I think is so wonderful, Laura, is that you are living proof that it was a great decision not to take your life because look, 25 years later, you say you're happier than you've ever been, you're living your best life, you're fulfilled. And in that moment of despair, which so many young people are struggling with mental health today, you feel like you can't go on and life doesn't get better, but you are living proof that it does. So what would you like to say to some person who's struggling in this moment? Somebody's listening to us right now in this moment who is in that street.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When we moved there, I felt a void and I couldn't put my finger on it for a while. It was something was missing and it was that service to others that I feel so inherently as me. And so then I joined the American Red Cross in the Hawaii Division and I ended up becoming, funny enough, a real estate agent, very much removed from what I had been doing previously. I was very good. I still do it and I've had a mentor who even said to me, and he probably doesn't realize this is one of the best things anyone ever said to me. He said, you know, you have a gift. You have a gift. And I thought, wow, no one's ever put.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Understanding who I was and feeling fulfilled was the career that I had for 16 years as a 9-11 operator dispatcher, eventually supervisor, I loved that job. And that is when I felt very much myself. I felt that was what my purpose was, which I had been searching for for so long. My purpose was service. And if I could be a safe place for people who otherwise were in their worst moment and sometimes the most traumatizing event they'll have in their entire life, if I could be that for somebody, that's what fulfilled me. So funny enough, when I took a deferred retirement and my now second husband and I moved to the greatest place on earth. Not Disneyland, but Maui, Hawaii. Yes, I would agree.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And shares everything. I think it's hard for people to understand what a courageous thing that would have been to out yourself that you were having mental health issues. Now, in the most recent years, we've been able to talk about the word trauma and about mental health and not feeling great about yourself and how it's okay not to be okay, but I'm telling you, in 98 and the 2000s, that was not the case. Yeah, no, it was very taboo. You just didn't expose yourself like that. This is before social media. There was no Facebook, like you said, discussing your feelings. And so I guess my way of...”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Burying that to the world was terrifying, but so worth it. And I feel like that was a good chapter for me. And I'm living a beautiful life now. Absolutely. I couldn't be happier. I never would have imagined this. I'm so thrilled to hear this because many of the producers and I, you don't know what happens after the show. I did every show with the hope that it was a win-win for whoever was a participant, obviously, you coming on and being a guest for us was a win for us. But I always wanted the guest to leave with something that would also be meaningful in their lives. And I think I didn't know how old you were, but I think, you know, in this world that we live in where everybody posts all their feelings and what their sandwich was this morning,”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like a piece of an onion peeling away to show what my personality was. So I do want to thank you for allowing me to participate in that because since that show aired, it taught me a lot. It taught me that I'm braver than I ever thought I could be. And it gave me confidence to be my authentic self. I am not really shy anymore. I say I'm a little introverted, but I am who I am take me or relieve me. And I know who I am deep down and I love that about myself. And it was so encouraging to see really heartfelt comments after the show aired from people who watch the show and also from people who knew me and didn't know that side of me.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Laura is zooming in from South Carolina. Laura, hi. Hard to believe that was 25 years ago. What happened to you after that show? Oh my gosh, 25 years. Well, thank you for inviting me to share today. I feel so honored to be present in this moment. 25 years ago, I was turning 25 and also starting a new job as a 911 operator. I was absolutely terrified to share such a personal story with anyone other than my own self. And I think you touched on it earlier. These weren't topics that were typically spoken about 25 years ago. So as a young woman whose friends and family had no idea this ever happened was kind of”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What do you want to say to all the people who felt that she did? I don't know because I hear this all the time and you do too on your website. People saying, I don't know what my purpose is. I think my life doesn't have any meaning. And there obviously, with all the people who are watching us around the country, somebody watching right now saying, I identify with exactly what you said. I don't know what my purpose is. I don't know what is my meaning. Is my life important to anybody? Does anybody care if I decide today? I no longer want to be here. And what do you want to say to that, Gary?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That you would be stuck right there looking at that man on the bridge, getting ready to jump when you'd been thinking about doing it yourself.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Story that is what a story that is, you know, I was just saying to Gary, I don't believe in coincidences. I believe whenever anything happens and you happens in your presence, it's happening for a lesson for you. And what's interesting about that, for everybody else on that freeway who saw it, it happens to them for whatever reason, you know, their story.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Welcome back, listener. On this episode, I am so happy to be sharing the greatest lessons from one of the most profound teachers of my career and life, Gary Zukov. He's a man who has Change my internal spiritual GPS or the way I saw it. I know he's done that for so many of you too with his book Seed of the Soul, so let's get back to it. I'll never forget another young woman who shared her story on the Oprah Winfrey Show with Gary and myself. Her name is Laura. Let's listen to Laura. This is Laura. Her soul story is a reminder that the universe is always providing us with opportunities to discover a more fulfilling life.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you. Thank you. Listener, I am grateful that you are here and up next an update on a young woman Laura who appeared on the Oprah Show with Gary Zukov Laura shared with Gary and me that she was thinking about taking her life until the universe sent her a sign to live a more meaningful existence here on earth, and she's joining us twenty five years later. Stay with us.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Time, tears, and talking. I thank you so much. I thank you so much for holding that space for Ryan in your heart and then all those many years later, it comes back and is a balm, is a soother, is a comfort to you. Thank you so much, Alicia.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow. So this was a very definition of a full circle moment. What do you want to say to anybody who... May be stuck in their grief right now.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About telling your family story all those years ago. That was really brave to do that on national broadcast television. We have Alicia joining us via Zoom from North Carolina who saw that show. Hi Alicia. I hear baby Ryan's story had a profound impact on you. I could feel it having an impact on people around the country and the world because, you know, for me, it was always the audience was the rest of the country. And everybody in that audience was so moved by that story. And we could feel the presence of that little baby soul or spirit in the room. And the fact that we were talking about him, as I said, he only lived a few days and we are sharing that story with people around the world. And you're one of the people who heard it.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gary said something to the effect of maybe Ryan's soul was meant to guide Spencer into this world and then move on from this world. I have thought about that many times. I also took to heart his advice to not burden Spencer with the loss of his twin by always thinking or saying Well Ryan should be doing this or that during the times when we are celebrating Spencer, I have lived by that in our relationship with Spencer and I think that was important. Spencer has been able to live his life as himself and not being burdened by our loss. However, I will say that I do feel he has his own loss, that he has yet to really understand or deal with. Ira remembers Gary saying, your emotions are your friends and has used that throughout his life. So, I want to thank you, Jodi, for sharing your update and for being so.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow. Well, we recently connected with Jody, the mom there, and she wrote us an update. She said that I could share with you all here. She says, we are all doing great. Spencer is 24, almost 25. Haley is 27, and we have another son, Cooper, who is 19. That day was an important turning point for me in my recovery of power. It really helped me put things in perspective and get my life back on track and learning to deal with the loss and sorrow. I am not sure that the show really caught the power of that moment in the way that we all felt it, like Ryan's soul was in the room with us. It was an oddly comforting feeling. A few things I remember most which I don't even think aired. Maybe it was during a commercial break.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You are feeling it right now. Every one of us feels the soul of Ryan right now at this moment. Every one of us feels the soul of Ryan. And that's really what Gary's talking about in multi sensory perception. If you only in the book about multi-century perception, if you think it's only what you can see. You're missing the whole point. Because every one of us saw that story, heard that, and now feel the presence of your son who was only here for a short few days. In his own little life, weighing one and a half pounds has impacted through the telling of that story millions of people. We all feel it. What do you think? We're all feeling that right now. Are we not, Gary?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Unbelievable. We're talking about this in the 90s on broadcast television. One of the most profound moments I ever experienced on the Oprah Show was when Gary and I spoke with a young mother and father who were suffering in their grief after the death of one of their infant twins. Let's listen to that conversation. Now we want you to meet Jody, who says she used to be confident and empowered, felt empowered. She was the one her friends turned to for advice. But just a few months ago, Jody endured one of the most difficult things a mother can experience. And now she fears that she has lost her power and will never regain control over her life. Take a look.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is authentic empowerment. The secret is alignment. When you know that you're on course and doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing, fulfilling your soul's intention, fulfilling your heart's desire or whatever you choose to call it, you are your most powerful. As Gary sees it, there are only two kinds of power, authentic, internal power, and external power. We often get the two confused.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Welcome back to the Oprah podcast, Gary Zukov, the author of Seed of the Soul, and many other books, has expanded my spiritual life over the decades I've known him. I know he's done that for so many of you too. He appeared on the Oprah Show nearly forty times. But this next story about Baby Ryan and his parents grief is one I and I know so many of the people who viewing at the time will never forget. It will always stay with me. Baby Ryan's story is an example of the spiritual lesson around the purpose of why each soul comes to earth. If you are someone you know is experiencing grief, I'm hoping that Gary's words will serve as a healing balm for you. Let's listen. And he says, when the personality comes to fully serve the energy of its soul, that”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thanks for having me. Thank you. Thank you, Chef Todd. I love that you're taking the time out of your day to join me for this episode of the Oprah Podcast. We're taking a deep dive into the spiritual lessons of Gary Zukov, best-selling author and one of the greatest thought leaders of our time, coming up the story of Baby Ryan, whose parents appeared on the Oprah Show, to talk about their abense grief over losing one of their newborn twins. Their conversation with Gary touched viewers all around the world. We have an update from Ryan's parents about their life now. That's coming up. Stay with us.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let the lessons continue for you. There are so many, and you know, I could read, I've been reading that book for over 20 years, and I could read it again today and find something completely inspiring for myself. And I know that is true as you continue the journey. Congratulations. It's so exciting the way the world opens up. That's one of my favorite lessons too. Your personality comes to serve the energy of your soul. One of my favorite. Your intention is at one with cause and effect is my other. That's the one that guides my life. So, thank you”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have to, well, that is just because you've been taught to believe that you're supposed to put yourself behind everyone else. The real truth is you're supposed to put yourself first so that your cup runneth over and you then have enough to give to everybody else. You're not supposed to be giving from your point of dearth. You're supposed to be giving from your point of abundance. And that is... You will get that with the more you practice it. You know, it took me a while because, you know, I come from challenged, you know, poverty circumstances. And so I grew up with that whole poverty mentality. And so it took me a while to doing the real spiritual work on myself to get to the point to know that I deserve to live in a space of abundance. And the more abundant I am, the more I am willing to share that abundance with other people.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Come to serve and be of service to, let every step only move you in the direction of that. And all the other stuff is other people's stuff. Be very clear about why you are here and what it is your mission to do. And don't get yourself, don't allow yourself to be taken off the course in other people's business and other people's thoughts and other people's stuff. That's what I would say. That's how I stay on course for myself.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be about the business of serving that reason and that reason only. That is why you're here. I don't know what that answer is, but let every step you take move you into the direction of what that answer is. So there is a thread that connects the dots of all of our lives. For me, that thread is inspiration. Since I was a little girl speaking in the church, Kasi Esco, Mississippi, people were saying to my grandmother, Haddie May, that girl is a talking child. That child sure can talk. So I have used my voice as a form of inspiration and inspiring people since I can remember knowing how to speak. For you, maybe it would be food since you are a chef, using food as a form of an offering and a gift to people, letting people see and feel your spirit, your love, your kindness, your grace through your food. Whatever that is that you've”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, here's the thing you have to be able to answer the question, and you're not going to be able to do it here now, but here's the question I want you to think about, Todd. Why are you really here? Why are you really here? What is the reason for the life of this human incarnated in the flesh as chef description of what you do? Todd Anderson, what is the reason for that?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You do, you do. You have resentment, which defies the whole reason for doing it, because then that resentment that you're feeling is going to come back to you in another form. You resent it because you did it for the wrong reason. The most important reason to look at what is the pure intention so that you do it out of respect for the other person, you genuinely do want to help the other person, and you're going to sacrifice your own time to do it. And because you actually want to do it. But if you For any other reason, you will end up resenting it. How many times have you been at an event where you just go, I don't even know, I don't even know what I'm doing here. I don't even know.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Coming back because your intention was Directly sending the message to them that, oh, I'm the guy you can call on and I'm going to immediately say yes. And when you are that guy, you always get called on. So you have to think. I now do not leave my house without thinking about what is the reason I'm going to do it. Am I actually going to be able to be of service? Is it going to mean something to me or am I just doing it to please the other person?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Intention. And if my intention is to serve the other person in making them think I'm a nice person or to allow them to feel like feel better about me, then I don't do it. Because that's just your ego wanting itself to be fed so that the person says, oh, she's a nice person. He's a nice person. My God, you can count on him every time you ask for something. He's going to drop what he's doing and he's going to come to you. What happens is I found out once you are that person, they keep coming back.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, what I now do is I stop and I say, let me get back to you or give me a minute, let me pray on it. One important thing to say is let me check my schedule. You of all people... Can say that. And that just gives you a moment to breathe and to separate yourself from an immediate, because you're right. You don't know the logistics. You don't know maybe you have something else on that day. Maybe you have other commitments. Maybe you are not going to want to whenever that day comes around. But saying, you know, let me pray on it. I used to literally go pray on it. Or give me a moment and let me look at my schedule and see what I can do gives you a moment to decide whether intentionally you want to do this. So here's the big lesson I learned from intention that helped me cure, not cure, but certainly manage my disease to please because I'm not saying that there still aren't some times that I say yes when I would rather say no, but I never say yes when I'd rather say no without thinking about it first. And I always think about what is my”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let me stop you right there. Let me stop you right there. Why did you immediately say yes without even thinking about it? Why did you say yes?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, they're out. Thank you so much for talking to us. Thank you. Thank you. Chef Todd Anderson is joining us from Southern California. Todd, I hear you're a news Zukov listener and that you listen to the audiobook of Seed of the Soul for the first time just three months ago. How are you just now discovering Gary Zukov?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, may I say I'm so sorry that you had to sit in the death pit of, you know what? And I'm really sorry to hear about your dogs killed by coyotes. I know. I know I live in California and it's like we never let Sadie out by herself. It's just like watching her child all the time. Yes.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You say, I know you told our producers that Gary's book has shifted how you make decisions in all of your relationships. And then that happened to me too. How so for you?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Welcome back to the Oprah Podcast. On this episode, I'm joined by people from around the country whose lives have been transformed by the teachings of one of the greatest spiritual thought leaders, Gary Zukov. Gary's book The Seed of the Soul Shifted the Way I Live My Life. I read it in nineteen eighty nine, and it changed everything for me. Let's get back to it. Julianne Huff, you know her as an Emmy Award-winning dancer, an actress, host, producer, entrepreneur. All those things, us dancing on stage together. I haven't seen you in a while. Hello, joining us via Zoom. I did not know that you were a big Gary fan. I hear you read The Seed of the Soul during a chapter of your life that you call the death hole pit of shit era.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some of the greatest spiritual lessons I've learned from bestselling author Gary Zukov, coming up, I'm joined by Emmy winning dancer actress and TV host Julianne Huff, who says Gary's teaching pulled her out of one of the darkest chapters of her life. We'll hear her story after a quick break.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Many weeks later, because this really threw a lot of the producers off, like, oh, now we got to find the guests, now we got to book the guests, now we got to have an intention for booking the guests. And he came to me and said, okay, we have Brad Pitt. And I said, what is your intention? And this is Terry. My intention is for you to sit in a chair and Brad to sit in the chair and for both of you all to talk to each other. And everybody's going to be very happy about it. Okay, I accept that. It's Brad Pitt. My point is we had the number one show in the United States for 25 years because we made the shift to lead with intention. And after every show, we'd have a conversation with the producers gathered in my office about did we fulfill that intention and how we could make it better. Thank you for being here, dear listener, for this episode of the Oprah Podcast. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so happy to be sharing with you.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With my intention, meaning I have to find some level of truth in whatever it is you are presenting so that I can sit in the seat and be clear about why I'm there and why I'm speaking and I'm not being a phony person. And I remember a one producer saying,”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, this is the way I see it. In your own private life and in our collective lives, we experience the world's reality based on what we all intended. That's in your personal life, what you personally intended, and collectively we have the world that we have because this is what we all intended. And understanding that principle changed my life personally and professionally. So much so that when I first read this in the book, I called all my producers together on the Oprah Show. And I said, from this day forward, we're not going to produce another show. We're not going to put another thing on the air without a clarity of intention. So everybody who is coming up with your ideas for your shows, I want at the top of the page, what is your intention for the show? And your intention has to align.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's talk about cause and effect. It is the single hardest. To me, it seems to be the simplest law, and I think most people, certainly the American culture, is aware of do unto others as you would have them do unto you, which to me is the law of karma simplified. And people are aware of that, but are not aware that it applies to every single aspect of your being. When I knew less, I used to think, oh, well, I'll talk about her because I don't care if she talks about me. Because if that's all going to happen, me talking about her means, she's going to talk about me back. That's okay if she talks about me because I don't like her anyway. But it doesn't work that way. I obviously know it doesn't work that way, that it's about the energy that you put out comes back and it comes back in its own way, but in direct proportion to what you put out.”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talking about karma, and you say every action, every thought, and every feeling is motivated by an intention. And that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. And if we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. And I took from that that we have the world that we have created based upon our conscious and unconscious intention to do so. Is that correct?”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And this same conversation, one of the greatest lessons from the moment I read it, is the principle of intention. I believe that the principle of intention, which is aligned with cause and effect, is one of the greatest spiritual principles guiding the forces of our planet. And it is behind every decision in my life now, intention. When I truly got this, everything changed for me. This is the foundational principle that rules my life. Let's listen. The resonating moment of clarification came on page 38, where you say,”
2025-07-15 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What do I really want? That's the ultimate question. And what I now know is that we all want the same thing. Everybody wants to be able to live to the highest, fullest expression of yourself as a human being. That's what you want. That's what I want. And what we all really want, we may find it hard to articulate is to be authentically empowered to do that, authentic power. And Gary defines authentic power is when your personality comes to serve the energy of your soul, when that little ship is actually following the mothership. That's the only power that lasts forever. You lose everything else. Authentic power is when you are in pursuit of the energy that your soul came to offer the planet. And when you get that, you no longer are chasing after all the wrong things.”
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“Up over and over and over, something more, something's missing. Is this it? A lot of women were sharing that with me after the show. And that's how I knew that there was a yearning to connect to something bigger and that bigger is the reason why we're all here. But people don't know what to call it. So let's listen to a part of my very first interview with Gary Zukov when he explains what the soul is and why we're here.”
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“But I always operate through my own instinct and my own intuition. And I felt deeply that the audience was ready. And I believe this because I was ready and I always just saw myself as a surrogate for the audience. And here's how I knew. After every single show, I would sit and talk to the audience. And every day without fail, somebody from some part of the country would stand up and say, you know, I've done everything I was supposed to do. I went to school. I had two children or two children and I have the picket fence and the cars. I have the swimming pool. I have the square footage. But I still feel empty inside. I feel like there's something more. I don't have meaning. I don't have purpose. Is this all there is? So those of you that are older know that is that all there is, my friend, is a famous song. Well, that theme is this all there is.”
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“Along with our audience. He first appeared on the Oprah Show during a time when talking about spirituality on daytime television was unchartered territory. I know you all are on all the social media platforms now and everybody's talking about the soul and about spirit and about wellness and about the light. Well, let me just tell you, in the early 90s, this nobody was talking about it. And you were considered it was not a good thing to be talking about it. A lot of people felt. I got all kinds of backlash for it. People accusing me of trying to start my own church, not understanding what the word spiritual meant, confusing spirituality with religion. So many people were. And my producers were convinced that America was not ready for a conversation about spirituality. And certainly not about talking about the soul.”
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“Hi there. I'm glad to be with you here on the Oprah podcast, and I think we can all feel that. We're living in profoundly defining times, a lot of uncertainty politically, socially, morally. During any kind of change or challenge in my life, I have learned to come back to the center of myself, to go inward and get closer to the source with a capital S of all things and check my own internal GPS. And a major contributor in helping me to do this is this book, The Seat of the Soul, by one of the most insightful spiritual teachers of our times. He's a New York Times bestselling author, thought leader, Gary Zukov. Now, Gary appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Super Soul Sunday over 40 times. I kept inviting him back as I was expanding my own spiritual insight.”
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