E5: Ceasing to Let Your Mind Limit Your Happiness
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
“In a split second,” teaches Michael Singer, “your mind can make you miserable or ecstatic. All it takes is a thought.” Our hopes, dreams, opinions, and preferences—all of these are constructs that we’ve made up. And they pit us against reality, limiting our contentment and joy. So what can we do about it? In this episode, Michael answers that question.
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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. Hmm, jaccarotif, jamesters. |
| 1:01.0 | Life can seem very complicated, but the truth is it's not. |
| 1:08.0 | It's not. |
| 1:10.0 | The mind makes it complicated. Reality is very simple. That's the entire |
| 1:16.8 | path of spirituality. To go from where one is caught to where one is liberated, it's free, |
| 1:23.3 | doesn't mean you don't live your life. You have a life to live. |
| 1:27.7 | You're going to live your life. |
| 1:29.6 | The question is how you're doing with it? |
| 1:32.0 | And in most people's case, not very well. |
| 1:34.8 | I mean, sometimes things happen that you like and then you're happy. |
| 1:37.9 | And then things happen that you don't like and then you're not happy. |
| 1:40.9 | And then you fluctuate in between. |
| 1:43.1 | That's what people think life is. This fluctuation |
| 1:46.9 | of yin yang of liking and disliking and struggling is a struggle. Why? You struggle to get what |
| 1:54.4 | you want because that's the only time you're okay. You struggle to keep what you want. This is the |
| 1:59.9 | only time you're going to be okay. You struggle to avoid what you don. This is the only time you're going to be okay. |
| 2:01.6 | You struggle to avoid what you don't want because you know you're not going to be okay. |
| 2:06.6 | You worry, even when it's not happening, you worry that what you don't want might happen. |
| 2:12.6 | You worry that what you want might not happen. |
| 2:15.6 | Well, by the time you've done that, forget it. That's not much of a life. And people will say, well, if you get what you want, it is. Yeah, but it's just not the way it works, is it? Sometimes you get what you want. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes what you thought you want. You didn't. And sometimes when you got what you want, it doesn't stay. And sometimes you're doing really well getting what you want. And all of a sudden something happens that you really don't want. And then what you want doesn't even seem like, I don't even want it. It's too confusing. It's much too complicated, all right? So if you want to live like that, you are free to live like that. |
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