Feb 25

Super Soul Special: Jay Williams: You Can Survive Your Worst Mistake

Originally aired April 30, 2018. Former professional basketball player Jay Williams opens up to Oprah about his near-fatal, career-ending motorcycle crash, his regrets and how he's learned to fulfill his destiny despite those who say he threw it all away. Jay was poised to become ... Show More

32m 28s

Feb 18

Super Soul Special: Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz'

Originally aired April 25, 2018. American philosopher and best-selling author Jean Houston describes herself as an "evocateur of the possible" and a "midwife of souls." She sits down with Oprah to talk about her expansive career, mythologist Joseph Campbell, her work with luminar ... Show More

30m 27s

Feb 11

Super Soul Special: Timothy Shriver: Fully Alive, Discovering What Matters Most

Originally aired April 18, 2018. Oprah sits down with Timothy Shriver, the impassioned chairman of the Special Olympics and a member of the prominent Kennedy family, to talk about some of the spiritual lessons he's learned from the athletes, how courage and grit are fundamental t ... Show More

34m 57s

Mar 2020

How to Make Love Last

From January 8, 1993: Oprah interviews self-help author and Oprah Show regular guest Harville Hendrix, who teaches us how to make our relationships not only last longer, but become happier. He talks about overcoming trust issues, childhood wounds appearing in adulthoo ... Show More

30m 39s

Jan 2022

Remembering bell hooks and 'All About Love'

Author and social activist bell hooks died a couple of weeks ago, so we at Book Of The Day thought it would be nice to revisit one of our favorite interviews of hers. In 2000, she discussed her book All About Love: New Visions with NPR's Cheryl Corely. They talked about how most ... Show More

11m 59s

Feb 2024

Three Powerful Lessons About Love

When Daniel Jones started the Modern Love column in 2004, he opened the call for submissions and hoped the idea would catch on. Twenty years later, over a thousand Modern Love essays have been published in The New York Times, and the column is a trove of real-life love stories ... Show More

35m 50s

Jun 2019

The Inner Life of Social Change | Ruby Sales

Public theologian Ruby Sales opens up what it was like to be a teenage participant in the civil rights movement — including the impatience she had with religion and how she circled back, through her experiences of the movement, to a sense of the deep reason for inner life and rel ... Show More

7m 34s

May 2024

Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, speaker, political activist, and spiritual thought leader. She is the author of 15 books, including 5 New York Times Best Sellers (A Return to Love, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, The Healing of America, and Illuminated Prayers), and the ... Show More

1h 22m

Oct 2023

Amor Fati: Loving What Is

In this episode, Eckhart talks about the process of writing his first book, The Power of Now. He says he surrendered to the idea that the book wanted to be written. He explains he had a vision which inspired him long before he wrote the first word. He shares he encountered nay ... Show More

42m 2s

Feb 2022

Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman — Love Your Enemies? (Really?)

It’s a piece of deep psychological acuity, carried in many religious traditions: that each of us is defined as much by who our enemies are and how we treat them as by whom and what we love. In this episode, two legendary Buddhist teachers shine a light on the lofty ideal of lovin ... Show More

50m 40s

Dec 2021

Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Meaningfulness is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Susan Wolf, the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This fascinating conversation explores what it is to live an ethical, meaningful life in ... Show More

2h 6m

Understanding “A Return to Love”