E148: Not My Will—The Path from Ego to Liberation
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Human suffering arises from the belief that life must match our inner preferences, which are simply selectively stored past experiences. This attempt to control reality leads to anxiety, resistance, and endless struggle, because the outside world unfolds according to its own laws—not ours. True spiritual freedom comes through surrender, acceptance, and dying to the ego-self, allowing us to rest in the seat of consciousness and live in peace, love, and service to what is.
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| 0:00.0 | decorative, diamesters. |
| 0:04.9 | Life can be extremely difficult, and life can be extremely easy. |
| 0:11.4 | And that's the truth. |
| 0:13.4 | Even at the extremes, that's true. |
| 0:16.4 | It's not fun to talk at the extremes. |
| 0:18.5 | It's hard to understand and comprehend. |
| 0:22.4 | When is life difficult? |
| 0:30.3 | When it's not the way you want it to be. Did I get it? When is life? Not difficult. When it's the way you want it to be. That is like the beginning and end of all spiritual teachings. |
| 0:41.1 | Spirituality is not about belief, it's about realization. All of you have through your life had experiences that taught you what I just |
| 0:50.2 | said, that life is easy when it's the way you wanted to be, and life is a bearer when it's |
| 0:58.6 | not the way you want it to be. You have to go to school to learn that, did you? You didn't need |
| 1:04.0 | spiritual teachers, you need parents, you need anything. It's something that you in there learned. Okay. And because you learned that, |
| 1:15.5 | and because you know that to be the truth, you suffer. And that's the truth. And that's the |
| 1:23.2 | truth. And that's the only reason you suffer. I know you throw all kinds of things at me, why people suffer. |
| 1:29.3 | That's why they suffer. |
| 1:31.3 | They suffer because things are not the way they want to be, |
| 1:34.3 | and they don't suffer as much, |
| 1:37.3 | and things are the way they want it to be. |
| 1:40.3 | Well, what's wrong with that? |
| 1:43.3 | It means you are going to suffer your whole life because things are not going to be the way |
| 1:49.0 | you want to be. |
| 1:51.0 | Sometimes. |
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