E110: Awareness: The Essence of the Spiritual Path

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The essence of spirituality is directly experiencing awareness itself. Your thoughts, emotions, body, and external objects are simply things you are aware of. They are not aware of you—you are aware of them. Spiritual growth is learning to remain centered in that awareness, letting experiences pass without clinging or resisting. This allows you to handle reality as it is, instead of as a reaction to your past, and leads to a life filled with love and inspiration.

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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. Jigrativ. Giamester's. There are so many different ways to look at spiritual life, spiritual growth, really to look at life itself.
1:09.0	When it's all said and done, there's some basic things you have to understand in order to go deep into this path.
1:19.6	First, your awareness of being, which is just like words, are you aware of that are you conscious of what's
1:29.8	happening be more conscious that's blasphemy to use words like that what is
1:38.4	awareness you don't even bother no one talks to you about it. You're just aware.
1:45.0	When in school did they discuss with you what awareness is? Never.
1:51.0	And it is the most important thing in the entire universe. Why? Without awareness, nothing has meaning.
2:00.0	If you're not aware of something, it's not there.
2:02.7	But it is there, only because somebody's aware of it or somebody told you about it.
2:06.8	Awareness is magic.
2:08.9	It's like, what is it?
2:09.9	It's something that knows it, it knows that it knows.
2:13.0	What you're aware of, lots of those things aren't there.
2:18.2	How many things are you aware of?
2:20.5	What is awareness?
2:22.3	That is yoga.
2:24.2	That is spirituality.
2:26.2	That is the essence of everything.
2:28.0	Everything else is just noise.
2:29.5	It's mind.
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