E35: Transcending the Ego with Awareness and Compassion

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The ego is a construct of learned experiences that defines your personal identity, desires, and fears. Trying to transform the ego into something it is not creates a tremendous struggle that could last a lifetime. Instead, by cultivating “witness consciousness,” you can observe the ego without attachment, leading to clarity and compassion toward yourself and others. As judgment fades, seeing others not as their egos but as the divine consciousness behind the ego leads to living in the world with respect, love, and humility while aligning with your deeper spiritual purpose.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications.
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1:01.0	If you work on yourself, which basically means letting go of yourself,
1:08.0	just at the personal level, you start to realize there's something very great inside of you
1:14.2	very beautiful very creative very inspired very loving very selfless you're not to try and be
1:23.3	those things people try to make their ego be that. That's a joke. The ego cannot be that. It is not that.
1:33.4	The ego is the opposite of that. Ego is about itself. It is always about itself. That's all I can think
1:39.9	about is itself. It was created out of the fear of losing, of being alone, of getting hurt,
1:46.0	and then you built, you built this ego, you built this thing in your mind that said,
1:51.0	this is how I protect myself, that I defend myself, this is what I want, this is what I don't want.
1:56.0	The word I is like branded onto the ego. It cannot exist.
2:02.0	It does not exist otherwise.
2:08.5	So to try and make your ego be that way, be the loving, open, selfless, you're wasting your time.
2:10.0	It's about letting go of the ego, not changing it into something.
2:14.6	It's not.
2:15.6	Eventually, you just accept that, yes, I have an ego.
2:18.4	I have an ego. It thinks about me. It wants what it wants. It doesn't want what it doesn't want, and it's serious about it. It's serious about what it wants, and it's serious about what it doesn't want. And if left to its own, that's what you guys are getting. That's what you're getting. You're getting the thing in here that's trying to get you to be the way it wants out there.
2:36.6	And you to be
2:35.3	the way it wants out there and you just be honest about it you don't try to make it not look that way
2:39.8	or change it you don't have to dish it out to people but you're aware of it's witness consciousness
2:44.5	you're aware i've spent so much time defining where ego comes from what it is there's nothing
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