E145: From Personal Preference to Universal Harmony
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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True spirituality is not about getting what you want or fixing the outside world, but learning to be okay inside by letting go of preferences, stored pain, and inner resistance. Reality unfolds through universal causes, not personal desires, and suffering comes from pitting yourself against what is. Enlightenment comes from witnessing your inner experiences without suppression, honoring all emotions, and living in harmony with, and selflessly serving, whatever life presents to you.
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| 0:00.0 | Jaguardive, Jamestors. |
| 0:03.0 | They're turning a corner and heading into Christmas and New Year's. |
| 0:10.0 | Very auspicious times. |
| 0:12.0 | Very good times to get your bearings. |
| 0:15.0 | The problem is that what people think their bearings are is how do I get what I want? |
| 0:22.9 | How do I get what will make me happy? |
| 0:27.1 | How do I get that will make me inspired? |
| 0:30.0 | How do I get that will make my life have deeper meaning? |
| 0:35.3 | And people struggle with it at all the time. |
| 0:38.7 | And coaches, life coaches, and others, preachers and so on, teach you that that's what |
| 0:45.3 | you should do. |
| 0:45.8 | You should strive for what will make you happy. |
| 0:50.6 | Strive for what will make you fulfilled. |
| 0:54.8 | The deep, deep teachings, the real deep teachings, they're not about personal growth, they're |
| 1:02.2 | about enlightenment. |
| 1:04.7 | That's a very, very different thing. |
| 1:07.4 | When we first published the Untether's Soul, of course, 17 years later has tremendous popularity. |
| 1:14.6 | When it first came out, people wrote on Amazon different comments, you know, like the first |
| 1:20.6 | three, four, five comments anybody ever wrote on the book. |
| 1:23.6 | And I'll never forget one of them. |
| 1:25.6 | And they said, this is not a self-help book |
| 1:30.3 | this is how to get enlightened and that's the truth along the way it may help you |
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