E146: Reality—The Doorway to Liberation

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

True spirituality is about aligning with reality—what is actually happening—rather than resisting or clinging to what the mind likes or dislikes. By storing emotionally charged impressions of past experiences (samskaras), we create inner resistance, which becomes the root of suffering and distraction from our divine nature. The path to liberation lies in relaxing instead of resisting, allowing all of life to pass through without suppression, thereby purifying the inner being and becoming a force for peace in the world.

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0:00.0	Geigerative, giant masters.
0:05.0	There's a word that's very, very powerful, very spiritual.
0:10.7	Perhaps it's our most spiritual words in our language.
0:15.4	It's called reality.
0:18.2	Nowadays, they may believe there is no reality.
0:21.3	It's whatever you think it is, whatever a lot of people say it is.
0:25.5	That's what reality is.
0:26.4	No, no, no, no.
0:29.4	Reality is something very, very, very real.
0:33.4	And in adapting to accepting, working with reality, you're going to find out that all the deep spiritual
0:41.8	teachings the Tao the Gita through the Bible the Torah the Kabbalah Sufi teachings they all the doorway to those teachings is reality.
0:57.6	If you're not in tune with reality, you're in your mind.
1:01.7	The only thing that exists other than reality is what you make up in your mind.
1:07.0	Your mind can make anything up.
1:09.3	It can say anything.
1:14.6	I'm from Mars. Let's all say it. Where are the Martian people? And all of a sudden there's this whole movement. We're from Mars.
1:19.6	The mind can do anything you want. It can also try to absorb, come in harmony with reality.
1:28.3	How different that is from what we do with our minds is incomprehensible.
1:34.3	For example, you make up what you like and what you don't like.
1:39.3	What do you mean, I make it up? You make it up.
1:42.3	Anytime you want, just make something up. I like her. I like him. I could just make up whatever you want. Yes or no. Likes and dislikes are not reality. Likes and dislikes are mind. They are mind and heart. Let's get that together because a lot of you guys think that heart is a very, very important, big thing. It is at some level, but not the level you're talking about. Your mind and your
2:07.6	heart are in cahoots with each other. They harmonize with each other all the time. If you have a negative
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