E30: The Art of Being Present

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Spirituality involves recognizing that we are the conscious awareness observing our thoughts, emotions, and experiences, not the experiences themselves. This awareness is part of an infinite, divine force that permeates all of creation. Self-realization involves learning to let go of attachments to past experiences and the ego-driven need for control, which distorts our perception of who we truly are. By embracing and handling each moment as it unfolds, we reconnect with our true, infinite nature, enabling us to live joyfully and serve others selflessly.

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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. Jai Gertif, Jiam masters.
1:00.0	Someday, when you get clear enough, and quiet enough, and open enough, you'll realize that creation has a purpose.
1:17.6	There's not that kind of purpose that your mind gives it.
1:21.6	It's sort of like if you're madly in love with somebody,
1:25.6	you haven't seen them for a while, and you see them, you don't have to think about hugging them, you know, to think about what you want to do.
1:34.7	There's just this expression of love connection that takes place all by itself.
1:42.7	An artist, a great artist artist doesn't think about art they express
1:50.6	what's inside of them onto canvas into clay into marble it's an expression of expression.
2:02.5	Well, somebody once asked Mayor Baba,
2:05.5	why did creation get created?
2:07.5	Why did God create creation?
2:09.6	And he said something very funny, but it's not funny.
2:12.0	He said, on a whim,
2:13.6	well, that's why you hug somebody.
2:15.3	That's why you paint.
2:16.2	That's why a true artist just expresses what's inside of themselves. That's true art. Great masterpieces last very, very long, whether they be music or paintings. And everyone sees them as masterpieces. Not because some art teacher taught them, oh, Mono did this, they just move your soul.
2:35.5	They touch you at a very deep place because they came from that place. A masterpiece, a great
2:41.8	masterpiece comes from the depth of the artist's soul and it just expresses itself. I was talking
2:49.0	about Beethoven. He was deaf.
2:51.0	He went deaf, the latter part of his life.
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