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Timothy Shriver

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first: 2026-02-11
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“I think we rise up into this gigantic glorious sense of life where we can see clearly. I think eternal life is as obvious and present to me as these trees. I have no doubt that my mother and father are... Right around here, and all my friends and cousins and children who I've put into the ground, and I think they're all right here just bursting with the life energy. And I think Inviting me to say relax all will be well, all is well.”
2026-02-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Timothy Shriver: Fully Alive, Discovering What Matters Most · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's a lie It's a lie. We're not separate. And as soon as we get close to that, as soon as we trust that, that's why we're here.”
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“I think we were here, we were put here to learn to love unconditionally every fibrino in our bodies and in the universe. I think we're here for the glory of the idea that we are united. You know, I think we think we're all divided. Like I think, you know, like you sit here thinking you're not the same as me. And I think I'm not the same. You're like, we're separate”
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“You know, it didn't. Yeah, I know, but I'm okay. I mean, that's a hard lesson for me to learn. I still want to be good on the show. I still want to be good in life. I still want to write a book that people like. You know, I still want to be liked. That's hard for me to trust that I don't have to do that.”
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“No matter how many tweetable moments, if this show is a bomb, if you walk off the set and go over there and go, wow, that was a load. All Marie and say, I like him, but the show sucked.”
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“So it's like your prayer room. Yeah. Oh no, it's a chapel. It's got an altar in it. Oh, it's a chapel. Statues and kneelers and all kind of crazy things. Candles.”
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“My definition of God expanded when I saw into the eyes of another person's soul and felt like I was in the presence of God, where I wasn't on my knees, when I wasn't saying prayers, when I was looking at another person, all of a sudden I'm like, oh my goodness. I'm looking at God. This is like I'm in the presence of the master, the creator, the energy of the universe.”
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“I try to meditate at least once a day. I am a practicing Catholic. I go to Mass every day that I can because for me the sacramental presence, the idea of God within me is like something I just need to practice over and over again. But God and I can never get enough of it. I can't get enough of it. I just love it. I'm like one of the kids in a candy shop, a church. I mean, I know it's weird. I know I sound like a goofball, but I love it.”
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“You don't follow your guiding you, it's always going to take you to the right place eventually. It's going to be the God. It is. God's guiding you to God. Did I say that? Oh, she said that.”
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“And I couldn't have articulated it. But intuitively, I followed it, which is dangerous. I can't say that's an easy recommendation to make. Just follow your gut, although it's a good one. But sometimes your gut gets you, you know, it's hard. You lose your job, you lose your income, you lose, you know, it can be difficult.”
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“The key, I think, is recognizing that you are more beautiful than you dare imagine. That you have to be afraid of nothing in sharing yourself with the world. I think so much of our lives are centered in places where we don't feel fully alive because we're afraid. I think to be unafraid of the judgment of others is the greatest freedom you can have. And I think all great innovators, all great souls are people who were not afraid. They found, if you will, God's strength. They found trust. And they became unafraid. I feel like I went into this experience thinking I would help the world, found myself quite insignificant, something of a failure, and struggling to figure out where I mattered.”
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“Talk a lot about our weaknesses and our pain. I think it's, I mean, the practice of fully alive is silence and service, I think.”
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“Yeah, relax. He's coming to our world. You know, she had the audacity to just say, you know, you need to come to my world And I'm thinking to myself, no, Loretta, we're trying to tell these people that we can get into their world, you know, that we belong in their world. And she's like, no, no, no, we're not. Their world is all messed up. Their world's about competition and greed and avarice, and they're all unsettled and stressed out. They should come to our world. Everybody counts. Everybody belongs. I think she's, you know, she's a genius of the soul.”
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“Tell us that story. So, I'm racing around the office, and the governor is going to come into my office. We were working hard to prepare for big games in New Haven. 6,000 people were coming, and the governor was going to come inspect everything. And I was tense and tight and screaming and barking and clean this up and moved this around. And Loretta Claiborne, a person with an intellectual challenge, child of the housing projects. And she's just sitting there helping out in the mail room. And she watches me go by and she says, you know, Tim, the governor puts his pants on in the morning the same as you. And my first reaction was, you know, I know that. And then I just had that one gift of a pause, and I thought to myself, you know, She's trying to remind me that we're all in this together. Just relax.”
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“To try to put words on what is wordless is hard, but it's a good exercise. It's a good attempt because it forces you. I kept diving into the journey and I kept finding stories in my own memory and my own soul. I remembered the story of Loretta Cliborne telling me, you know, you don't have to be intimidated.”
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“Defines them. And then you become not just embarrassed about what you didn't do, but ashamed of who you are. But a lot of us wake up in the morning thinking, I'm not really doing what I want to do with my life, and I'm not really who I want to be. And there's something more to life than what I'm getting.”
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“Everybody just teaches that we need lessons of the heart, right? We need to tell children that this is an important part of life. We need to remind children that when you lose, you have a chance to win the next time. You find a different part of yourself.”
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“We want to teach grit to children. We want to have grit ourselves. One of the things we've learned, I mean, the scholars teach us is that grit comes from being undeterred. People with grit just focus. You know, they know where they want to go and they stay at it. But everybody fails. We all fail. And then the question is”
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“So, if you justr just the second half. Let me be brave. What do I need to trust the world? I think bravery is like a strength you don't know you have. Let me be brave. I feel like somehow my mother knew that the secret of living fully alive, the secret of the soul was to try to win. But more importantly, to be brave”
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“I mean, I think that's a lesson for all of us. We sit at our home and we wonder, what do I do to come in first? And I think this athlete told us.”
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“And so in that moment, she, together with these incredible volunteers, and we walked on that field and they say, let's run our races. And one of the races, which to this day no one knows quite who ran it, it's a one time around the track of six athletes and starting gun goes and the volunteers are on the sidelines cheering and the athlete, they come around the back stretch and the athlete that's leading the race stumbles and falls and tumbles to the ground. And the athlete who's in second... Precedes a pace or two and then stops. And the other four athletes continue to the finish line, but the athlete who stops and turns around in the middle of his moment. Says instead, my fallen friend is the priority right now, is what matters most. And they get up and they cross the finish line together. He goes back and kicks.”
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“She says, let's create an event and call it Olympic. So you have the most forgotten, the most humble, the most stigmatized people on the planet. And she says, let's put it in soldier field.”
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“Miss Eunice Schriver at this moment because in that moment when institutions are growing, when the federal government, state governments, local government is doing nothing, when parents are struggling with the most impressive kind of shame, the shame you cannot reveal.”
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“So down on the field in 1968 at the first ever Special Olympics when people with intellectual disabilities are still living in institutions in huge numbers. In fact, the institutions are still growing in 1968.”
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“I think sometimes where you think you want to go. Is not the place where you will find your most heartfelt, most meaningful, most purposeful life. I think sometimes it's in the places you think, I mean, I looked around thinking I wanted to be like all those people in lights, and I found myself happiest in places nobody wanted to be.”
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“What was I saying? So, people come and they say there, but for the grace of God, go I. Mm hmm. And I always want to say to them that pity, that fear that that embodies, that I'm healthy and they're not, I think there's a strength and vulnerability That only vulnerability knows. You know, I think in some ways the whole Special Olympics gamble is, is there a power in vulnerability and trust? And I think the answer of our athletes is there is only power Vulnerability and trust. The other power is superficial. It locks people up. It puts people behind bars, social, cultural, political. Interpersonal, there is only power I grew up, everybody's in a spotlight. That's where we all wanted to get to That's where you would be successful And what I saw was sometimes when the lights are brightest, people feel the most invisible.”
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“The tyranny of that word, you know, it's just like it's a cancer in the culture. Normal Are you normal? Are you fitting in? Are you like everyone else? My God. Terrifying And yet we all feel that. So we come to these games expecting to be sad. We come to them expecting to feel pity. We say things like there, but for the grace of God go I. People say that well intentioned to me all the time.”
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“And he is magic. So we're afraid of all that. We don't know what to say. If you have a baby, what's the first question you ask a doctor? Is the baby okay? Sometimes the doctor says, no. Maybe he's not okay And your Was crashing in, you know, like. What is this child? This child is not healthy. This child is not going to be what everybody thinks he should be normally.”
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“Fear. Nobody wakes up in the morning saying, I wish that for anybody. So, a lot of people go, well, I'm sorry that happened to you. One mother told me she had three sons. One works, two work at big investment banks, and the other has a severe intellectual disability. And she says, every time people ask me about my sons, I tell them about my oldest who's in New York. I tell them about the second one who's in Chicago. And then I tell them about Christoph, who's at home, who I have to get out of bed every morning. And they always say to me, I'm sorry. And she said to me, Tim, your life's work is to tell them to stop saying that. About my son That boy is the light of my life And everyone thinks that I should be afraid, that I should be sorry, that I have this voice.”
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“Well, I think we're all afraid. Think of who these people are. You know, they're not smart by traditional definitions. They're not rich by traditional definitions. They're not pretty. By traditional definitions, they're not successful. They sometimes look sick by traditional definitions. There are all the things we don't want, we're afraid of.”
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“And I knew what I wanted, and I wanted to make Special Olympics into a school of the heart, and I wanted to share that story because I felt like it had given that to me. It had given me back my heart.”
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“Yeah. Well, I think when I probably, when I was 16 years old, I ran a special Olympics event in high school, which I did because my mother told me I should. And I didn't want to do this. I felt like I'd lose myself if I was in a family business. And to some extent, that was a risk. But I came back to Special Olympics when I was a little older, a little stronger, a little more centered, a little more present to who I was.”
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“I'm being run by it. It's a great, huge, wonderful global movement being run by the most caring, compassionate, loving human beings on the planet, millions of them all over the world”
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“That's so good, and there's little kids having nice time, and everybody smiles and pinch their cheeks and take their pictures. But it's not. It's a revolutionary movement. It's a movement of the spirit that is kind of an unbridled challenge to the world. You know, if you look at a child who's 12 years old with Down syndrome and believe, really believe in your heart that that child is as beautiful as any human being on earth?”
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“Yeah, yeah, no, I know. Well, the thing is, when you think of something like Special Olympics, people tend to think of it as that sweet. You know, that's nice.”
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“Right. What did you think of me? I don't know what I thought of you. Maria's little brother. Maria's little brother. He's doing something, you know.”
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“If you don't transform it, you will transmit it. And I think learning how to express grief, to move through it, to internalize both the pain and the healing, make it a real process of growth and change. I think if you don't get that right, you don't get the big question in life right, which is why am I here and what's going to happen?”
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“Get over it. And, you know, everybody's in heaven, and the children who are starving to death are much worse off than you. And get on to yourself. Move on. Hurry up. Get going now. Yeah. Get back in the game. Get back in the game. This is the way we did it. There's some strength in that. I don't want to completely say that there's no value in that, but I think we have to be honest and good religion, good spirituality is honest about pain.”
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“No talking, but on the other hand, you know, our house had hundreds of pictures and most of the pictures are of people who weren't there. And there are pictures of her parents and her brothers, her sisters. So there was this, in a way, attempt to keep everybody alive.”
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“If you get grief wrong, you get a lot of things wrong. You hide from a lot of pain, you hide from a lot of frustration, you hide, hide, hide. And in my family, of all the gifts we had, that wasn't one of them. We didn't really know how. I didn't feel like I learned how to face grief. Transform So, a lot of it just kept getting bottled up.”
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“The unspoken rule was we don't talk about that. Move on. Move on. I think every child grows up, just not just my family, there's a lot of loss around. You can't miss it. I mean, we think we hide it from our children. Children see And if you don't have any tools to channel it, I mean, I think if you get grief wrong, you get a lot of things wrong in life.”
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“I mean, that didn't, you know, it's so obvious, I suppose. But God is already there. You've already got it, you know. You don't have to earn God's love. That's the starting point, not the ending point. And I miss that. I miss that lesson until a couple of people just kept bringing me up short and inviting me into a deeper soul sense.”
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“I think you miss out on one big thing, which is that you're already valuable. I think you can get, like religion does this to people too. You start to think, well, God is the person whose love I need to earn.”
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“Can do the best, who can get the best grades, who can get on the best team, who can win the biggest trophy, who can get to sleep and get the most rest. Is a scoreboard in that house Which was, you know, I mean, I don't want to make it sound too horrible because, as I say, we had a lot of love in our family, and my parents were enormously generous and when you grow up with...”
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“Think my parents held ambition in good tension with love, but there was a lot of ambition and there was a lot of demands and we thought if we did things that were big we'd be more valuable.”
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“If I were saying the hand of God was there, I think she saved us all to find ourselves conquered by love. I mean, this is a beautiful expression of Saint Teresa, which I love in silence. We are conquered by love, invulnerability, we are conquered by love. I think Rosemary was the person who invited us all to not just be conquered by power and influence and money and fame.”
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“Well, because I think in some ways we thought of intellectual disability as a cause. And it was only when, at least for me, Spent more time in silence and reflecting, then I started to see intellectual disability as a part of who we were, as shame is a part of who we were, as vulnerability. I mean, we spend a lot of time as a family, most of us in all of our family spend a lot of time proving that we're not vulnerable. We think If we're not vulnerable, we'll be more valuable. I came to understand that in our family it was this vulnerability that Rosemary invited us into that was a whole source of value that I really had never really fully internalized, to be open to be vulnerable.”
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“Think her family struggled to figure out how this child fit in. We want our daughter to matter just like the other children, but the world doesn't necessarily understand or treat or accept her. So you have these equal powers of shame and love. In the end, I think the love wins, but not before a lot of pain comes along.”
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“I think she taught her brothers and sisters this enormously powerful lesson, which is that there's some things you can earn in life and then there's some things that are just given to you. And I think her mother and father told their brothers and sisters, take care of rosemary, include rosemary. And when they did that through that long, growing up period that they had rosemary with them. I think discovered that when you get asked to give yourself to someone else, you get something wonderful in return.”
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“And that's to the extent any one of us learns that, I think you have the key, the first steps in feeling fully alive and feeling really that our souls are free.”
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