Oct 4, 2026 · 11 min · 12 segments
In this fascinating conversation, Shirley MacLaine opens up to Oprah about reincarnation, past lives, karma, death, spirituality, and the lessons she's learned on her lifelong quest for truth. For…
Shirley MacLaineGuest
Oprah WinfreyHost
One of the things that you say in What If is, um, you question whether the human race may have simply gone too far to clean up.
I would say if they would take responsibility for, honestly, the investigation of who they are, yes.
If you don't take responsibility for what you're doing, somebody else will.
Is that the first step in learning to, to step into a well-lived life, taking responsibility?
It depends on what the human race collectively decides to do, and I think we're in that process.
I, well, the adventure of it all, to me, and I have to answer it that way, is that that is a real unknown, and you have to be, to be happy, you have to be willing to be compliant with not knowing.
One of the things that you say in What If is, um, you question whether the human race may have simply gone too far to clean up.
I would say if they would take responsibility for, honestly, the investigation of who they are, yes.
If you don't take responsibility for what you're doing, somebody else will.
Is that the first step in learning to, to step into a well-lived life, taking responsibility?
It depends on what the human race collectively decides to do, and I think we're in that process.
I, well, the adventure of it all, to me, and I have to answer it that way, is that that is a real unknown, and you have to be, to be happy, you have to be willing to be compliant with not knowing.
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