E34: The Stairway to Heaven: A Guide to Spiritual Growth and Self-Realization

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Spiritual experiences are inspiring but very different from the permanent state of spiritual realization. Momentary highs are temporary because, afterward, our consciousness is still lost in our thoughts, emotions, and learned preferences, which continue to drive our reactions and struggles in life. Deep growth begins by realizing you are not your thoughts or emotions but the observer of them. The everyday commitment to inner work that releases past emotional blockages, fears, and preferences is how you climb the permanent stairway to heaven. The ultimate goal is transcending the ego and experiencing the eternal oneness of your existence.

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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. Jaya Ghi Gurdiv, Jai Masters.
1:05.5	There's a vast difference between having a spiritual experience and becoming established in a spiritual state.
1:17.5	You can use deep meditations, which is wonderful.
1:21.8	Don't ever tell me I teach not to meditate because I don't.
1:24.9	But you can have experiences,
1:27.2	but they're not who you are
1:29.2	they're experiences that you had they're inspiring they can do a lot of good on
1:34.4	your path but there's a vast difference between becoming established an estate and
1:38.9	visiting a state like if you live in New York you live live there. If you visit, you visit. They're very
1:45.8	different things. So how does one understand those differences and work with those differences?
1:52.1	And they are not mutually exclusive. You can have experiences along the way. They can be inspiring.
1:58.3	But it's not the same thing as doing the work that permanently establishes
2:02.9	you in a permanent state of being.
2:07.8	So what you have is it's not a leap to heaven, it's a stairway.
2:12.9	It's a stairway to heaven.
2:14.7	So let's talk about that.
2:16.6	Your starting position is you're lost. What does that mean?
2:21.2	It means your thoughts and emotions are so powerful and so distracting that you don't even know they're not you.
2:32.4	You are enmeshed in these mess of thoughts and emotions.
2:41.5	They're consistent.
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