E100: You Are Not What Happened: You Are Who Experienced It

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We misperceive life and spirituality by fixating on tiny fleeting experiences and projecting personal meaning onto them. We build our entire self-concept and emotional world out of a narrow slice of reality that we selectively store in the mind—what we liked, disliked, feared, or attached to—while ignoring the vastness of the universe unfolding all around us. True spiritual growth lies in learning to accept, honor, and handle reality as it is, with openness and reverence. By releasing our fixation on our own mind, we can awaken into joy, love, and freedom, becoming examples of great light that can uplift the world through our presence.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications.
0:22.5	For more information about Michael Singer's work, access to all prior episodes, and information
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1:01.0	I feel it makes spirituality, not just spirituality, all the life,
1:06.0	way, way more complicated than it is or needs to be. For example, what you look at is what you see.
1:19.1	If I stare at a car and I'm fixated, I like the psychological words, I'm fixated on the car,
1:27.3	and that car is a major part of my life.
1:30.0	Why? Because I fixated on it. Is it a major part of my life? Of course not. It's no different than any of the car. The car is a car.
1:38.9	But if I take my consciousness, my awareness of being, and I fixate it on something, then that's what my life is.
1:48.9	My life isn't what I'm not aware of.
1:51.5	My life is what I'm aware of.
1:54.0	It's so logical.
1:55.0	It's silly to even talk about.
1:56.5	Only that which your consciousness is aware of has anything to do with your life.
2:02.4	How much is your consciousness aware of?
2:05.5	I know you think you're a very aware of being.
2:08.8	The truth of the matter is you're aware of nothing.
2:12.1	At any given moment, your consciousness is aware, if you're lucky,
2:16.8	you're not staring at a car or a person maybe you can see a
2:19.9	field or a broader view of something because you're not caught which is very rare okay and I'm
2:25.8	you're talking about outside like talking about you're caught inside your thoughts your emotions
2:30.5	pretty narrow field in it but you don't really think so. You say yes, but you don't
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