221. Letting Go: The Peace in Releasing What is Not Ours
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The key to managing expectations lies in knowing which are reasonable and which were never promised to us in the first place. In this episode, we explore the kabbalistic wisdom that peace comes from walking through life with fewer expectations, trusting that everything—every twist, every challenge—comes from the Creator and is meant to prompt spiritual growth. We’ll talk about how life’s constant changes mean our expectations are meant to be ever evolving. What if the universe is already giving you exactly what you need? And what if the only thing standing in the way of receiving it… is what you thought should happen instead?
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| 0:00.0 | I always say the things in life that you are afraid will happen usually never come true. |
| 0:13.8 | It's things that you never thought would happen that kind of like sweep you off your feet |
| 0:18.8 | and you're like, where did this come from? Right. So the question |
| 0:21.5 | is not why is this hard. The question is what will I reveal through this? What am I meant to learn? |
| 0:26.5 | What's the beautiful gift? Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry. It's good to be back |
| 0:36.4 | in New York for a little bit during the summer. |
| 0:38.2 | I hope everybody's having an amazing summer. |
| 0:40.6 | We've been traveling a lot this summer. |
| 0:42.3 | It's going by way too quickly. |
| 0:44.2 | And I already feel that energy is shifted between what July felt like versus August. |
| 0:50.1 | Once August comes in, it's kind of... |
| 0:51.9 | But I didn't actually finish anything. I was just thinking, I don't care if you knew. For us. I think for the most of the world. I didn't actually finish anything. |
| 0:54.6 | I was just thinking. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't care if you knew. Nobody else knew. Okay. I just took that. Exactly. Wow. Maybe I would say something you have no idea what I would say. Surprise me. Wow. Now I don't feel like it. But what I was going to say is that it starts to pick up at that pace again. |
| 1:13.8 | Like I'm like, I feel. feel like it. But what I was going to say is that it starts to pick up at that pace again. |
| 1:13.8 | Like I'm like I feel like I'm running out of time and rushing and trying to think about fall and |
| 1:18.9 | just and it's like, wait, wait, we're at the beginning of August. It's slow down. |
| 1:23.0 | Your horses. Did you know that's what I was going to say? Liar. So what were you, what was so important |
| 1:28.4 | that you wanted to interrupt me? No, I think for most people August is like the month they take on. I know a lot of people who maybe even work through July, but August they try to take off as much as they can. We used to do that and didn't work for us. We did. Yeah, we did that for, not all of August, but we used to travel more at the end of summer, and then we'd come back, and it was like a |
| 1:45.1 | rude awakening. So, but we used to travel more at the end of summer and then we'd come back |
| 1:44.6 | and it was like a rude awakening. So, but we are traveling again next week. |
| 1:50.1 | Anywho. |
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