E25: The Ego and the Self: Navigating the Inner World

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A spiritual person recognizes that they are not their thoughts, but the awareness observing the thoughts. While the impersonal mind is a powerful tool for intellectual and creative tasks, the ego mind is merely a mental construct that constantly seeks validation and control. By practicing witness consciousness and letting go of the ego, one can transcend mental noise and experience inner peace and spiritual fulfillment.

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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. Jay Grative, Jay Masters.
1:00.0	The most important thing that you can learn on your entire spiritual path is about your relationship with mind.
1:14.6	Most people have the following relationship. It's me.
1:15.6	That's the relationship.
1:17.6	Well, that's not a relationship.
1:19.6	That's an addiction.
1:21.6	Mind, when you go back far enough,
1:24.6	and by talking about it, it's just encouraging you as you move
1:30.0	through your path to see the signposts of what it looks like at different
1:36.5	stages at first your mind is extremely active which as as we discussed, is natural.
1:44.9	Why?
1:45.9	Because you're trying to solve a problem with your mind.
1:50.0	The mind is very intelligent.
1:51.9	It has data from past experiences, and it has a problem.
1:57.9	Your mind's problem is that you're not doing okay your heart doesn't feel
2:03.2	what you want it to feel you don't feel the inspiration don't feel the joy you
2:07.3	don't feel the love you don't feel the guidance you just kind of lost okay don't
2:14.0	take your personal but you're kind of lost And you try to be found with your mind.
2:21.7	It's like asking AI who you should marry, what you should do, what job you should take.
2:28.2	It'll give you very, very interesting answers.
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