E103: From Preference to Presence: The Journey Beyond the Mind

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We create tremendous suffering by shrinking our world to the narrow confines of our personal preferences. They have the effect of locking us in a house of our own building wherein we don’t realize there is a whole universe outside that house. Through sincere inner work, we can expand our awareness beyond the limits of ourselves into a world of peace, clarity, and selfless giving.

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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
0:28.7	about upcoming releases, we invite you to join us at Michael Singer Podcast.com. Jigrid of Jamestors.
1:01.0	There's so many aspects of the spiritual path
1:07.0	that people like to get involved in, participate, and believe in, and all that stuff.
1:14.6	But there's one aspect that if you can get it, it takes you the whole way.
1:20.6	How do you start?
1:22.6	Let's say I take you and I put you into a house.
1:28.3	The house has no windows, but it's a nice house,
1:32.3	reasonable size, and that's your life.
1:36.3	Period.
1:38.3	If you live there for 50, 60, 70, 80 years,
1:41.3	your entire life is what is going on in that house.
1:45.0	I assure you that things will become very small.
1:50.0	The slightest mark on a wall, the slightest sound, the slightest change, anything,
1:58.0	will come to your attention and you will focus on it and you will try to keep things
2:03.5	a certain way in that house.
2:06.7	The problem is your consciousness is so much bigger than that.
2:11.5	What a waste.
2:12.8	What a ridiculous thing to do.
2:15.5	We do that with so many things in our lives. I'm not picking anybody. So if I say this
2:22.6	example, don't you get mad at me, but let's say you're getting married. Well, that's a great
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