Michael: What will happen is when you let go of the noisy mind, you will end up in a seat of quiet, because that’s what it is back there: quiet. Oprah: And then what do we do? Lean into what that awareness is saying? You can still go to work, you still take care of the kids, you just lean away from this mess that the mind is doing to amplify and overemphasize or overexaggerate whatever’s going on. So as life unfolds on a daily basis, you have the right to choose not to do that. Give yourself permission to let go of the past and step out of your history, into the now.Īnd the reason it becomes a spiritual experience is because you’ve realized you are causing the vast majority of your own problems, due to your mental reactions. Make a decision to meet the pain as it rises within you and allow it to pass right through. Surrender to the hurt, loss, resentment, and disappointment. Pushing against the need to forgive is like spreading poison in your veins. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.” You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually it will ooze through and stain your life. “You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. “When best-selling author and spiritual teacher Iyanla Vanzant joined me on the show, I told her that I keep the lesson in forgiveness she shared with me in a little book of quotes I’ve collected over the years: The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations And so it’s useful to sit down and say, “What do I love? What are the things I really love? And in what order do I love them? Am I spending time on my highest love? Or am I spending time on a lower love?” So, for example, if a friend tells you a secret, and you blab it at a dinner party, you’re putting your love of popularity above your love of friendship. And so sometimes just by our nature, we get them out of order. And if we’re lying to get money, we’re putting our loves out of order. Or our love of truth should be higher than our love of money. We know that our love of family is higher than our love of money. And we all know that some loves are higher.
“We sin when we have our loves out of order.” Yes.ĭavid: So we all love a lot of things. He said, “We sin when we have our loves out of order.” And what he meant by that. And I don’t like the word sin when it’s meant to suggest we’re dark and depraved inside. But in traditional morality, it’s the sense that we have something broken. And he asked the question, what is sin? When we use the word sin now, we only use the word in the context of fattening deserts. Tell me what that does.ĭavid Brooks: That’s a concept from the great theologian Augustine. Oprah: I love how you say we should rank our loves in highs and lows.
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