Oprah ja aikamme suuret ajattelijat - Inspiroivia keskusteluja ja elämänviisauksia

by Oprah Winfrey

Oprah ja aikamme suuret ajattelijat on koskettava, kaunis ja ajattelua mullistava kokoelma Oprahin keskusteluja aikamme suurten ajattelijoiden kanssa.

Jokainen kirjan kymmenestä luvusta edustaa yhtä suurta oivallusta Oprah Winfreyn henkisellä matkalla. Oprah käy nämä oivallukset läpi syväluotaavasti kunkin luvun alussa. Oprahin omien mietteiden lisäksi kirja sisältää parhaita paloja keskusteluista aikamme suurten ajattelijoiden kanssa.

Kirjan sivuilla kuuluisat henkiset opettajat Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hahn, Wayne Dyer ja Marianne Williamson kertovat rakkauden parantavasta voimasta. Visionäärit Tony Robbins, Arianna Huffington ja Shonda Rhimes puolestaan jakavat oppinsa muun muassa mindfulnessin harjoittamisesta. Kansainväliset bestseller-kirjailijat Cheryl Strayed ja Elizabeth Gilbert kertovat anteeksiannon ja henkisyyden parantavasta voimasta.

Kauniilla valokuvilla höystetty kirja on ajaton hyvän elämän opas, jonka avulla lukija voi avautua elämän loputtomille mahdollisuuksille ja löytää syvemmän yhteyden ympäröivään maailmaan.

239 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2017

About the author

Oprah Gail Winfrey, also known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teenage years and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely and died in infancy. Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Nashville, Tennessee, and landed a job in radio while still in high school. By 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Winfrey's often emotional, extemporaneous delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company.
Credited with creating a more intimate, confessional form of media communication, Winfrey popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue. By the mid-1990s, Winfrey had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, mindfulness, and spirituality. Though she has been criticized for unleashing a confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and having an emotion-centered approach, she has also been praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. Winfrey also emerged as a political force in the 2008 presidential race, with her endorsement of Barack Obama estimated to have been worth about one million votes during the 2008 Democratic primaries. In the same year, she formed her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
In 1994, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Then in October, she finished the Marine Corps Marathon in less than four and a half hours. She has received honorary doctorate degrees from multiple universities. Winfrey has won many awards throughout her career, including 19 Daytime Emmy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Chairman's Award), two Primetime Emmy Awards (including the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award), a Tony Award, a Peabody Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award awarded by the Academy Awards, in addition to two competitive Academy Award nominations. Winfrey was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.