E154: You Are the Ocean—Escaping the Limits of the Ego

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This spiritual teaching uses the metaphor of ego-consciousness as an upside-down glass submerged in the ocean. The water (consciousness) within the glass is really the same as all the water outside the glass, but it sees itself as separate because it is looking through the barrier of the glass. This causes one to identify with a small, isolated sense of self instead of the infinite ocean of being. Ultimately, you are invited to stop identifying with the contents inside the “glass” and instead realize you are, and have always been—the ocean itself.

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0:00.0	Geigerative.
0:03.1	Giant masters.
0:07.1	As you go
0:08.2	much deeper
0:09.9	into yourself, into the path,
0:13.5	not just some spiritual experiences.
0:15.5	You had a nice day,
0:17.8	nice time, nice retreat,
0:20.1	nice vacation.
0:21.6	I'm talking about really starting to settle deeply
0:25.6	within yourself and staying there.
0:27.6	One thing you're going to notice
0:29.6	which is very difficult to talk about,
0:32.6	but I'm going to try.
0:34.6	You know, air is everywhere.'s everywhere but somehow the air that you breathe is
0:44.4	different if you could see the flow of the molecules they're everywhere but then you breathe in, if they come, some of them, the same ones is every else,
0:58.0	but some of them come into you.
1:01.0	Because you breathe them in, you brought them in, but they're the same as everything else.
1:07.0	And you breathe them out, and you merge back.
1:15.6	The time in which it spends in you,
1:19.6	you see as really special. There's an analogy. Don't think of it as your life breath.
1:22.6	Just talking about how energy moves.
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