E138: The Gap Between Reality and Preference

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Inner suffering is not caused by what happens, but by our preferences about what should or shouldn’t have happened—the gap between reality and what we want it to be. Our entire preference system is built from the sum of our learned experiences, which compared to all else going on, is statistically insignificant. But we worship what we have experienced as “truth,” to be defended and fought for. When we stop fighting, we come to understand that everyone is driven by their own conditioned experiences and inner pain—so we stop judging and start asking, “How can I help?” We act from a place of clarity and compassion, not to get our way, but to raise the energy of whatever passes in front of us.

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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. Geigerative.
0:59.6	Giamesters?
1:03.6	What is the difference between reality and what you want?
1:11.6	Because that gap is all of spirituality.
1:16.6	That's all it's about.
1:18.6	What is reality?
1:20.6	The way I like to define it so there's no argument,
1:23.6	is that which already happened.
1:29.2	Why is that reality?
1:30.3	Because you ain't changing it.
1:32.5	That's an absolute truth.
1:35.2	That should be such a thing as absolute truth.
1:38.1	Not my opinion, not fake news,
1:39.8	not conspiracy theories,
1:42.0	who can speak the loudest winds.
1:42.7	No, no, no, no.
1:48.0	If it already happened, it will never not have happened. That's a pretty solid way to find reality.
1:51.0	That which already happened.
1:54.0	Well, what is the other one?
1:56.0	That which you want.
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