E117: The Real Work: Letting Go from Within

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

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Summary

True spirituality isn’t about mystical experiences or lofty ideals—it’s about honestly facing and working with the reality of your inner world. The journey begins by realizing you’ve been reacting, resisting, and clinging to disturbing experiences, and then defining an ego that struggles to be relatively okay inside. Real growth begins when you start letting go of internal disturbances instead of learning to live with them. Through surrender, acceptance, and inner relaxation, you can rediscover your natural state of unconditional love and well-being. This is the real spiritual path—practical, grounded, and available to anyone willing to do the inner work.

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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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1:00.8	People think that the spiritual path is this mystical, otherworldly thing.
1:10.2	It's not true. It's very worldly. otherworldly thing.
1:11.8	It's not true.
1:14.1	It's very worldly.
1:15.7	Why?
1:18.7	You have to start from where you're at.
1:23.6	It's not some ideal that you make up or somebody convinces you of,
1:29.4	but you're still anchored with all the issues that you have, all the problems, the drives,
1:35.2	the desires, the fears, the insecurities, et cetera, they're real, they're there.
1:43.5	Those are what to keep them from being spiritual, not some ideal that you have and then trying to achieve it while leaving that stuff down there.
1:47.0	True spirituality, deep people understand things like that.
1:51.0	When you start, it's like, oh, it's exciting and I'll see lights and go places and astral travel
1:57.0	and boy, I can do neat stuff. Okay? And it's all about your beliefs and you're this and that.
2:03.1	You're going to find out there's only so far you can go
2:05.4	for you hit your head because you're carrying this anger with you.
2:08.9	And it's real, right?
2:11.3	The psyche is real.
2:12.5	I mean, it's as real as thoughts can be.
2:15.5	And until you work with yourself and raise yourself, it's been said
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