E60: Your Highest Aspiration: Finding Your True Self

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

People shape their aspirations based on their past experiences, clinging to what they liked and resisting what they disliked. This leads to a life filled with anxiety and the need to control. You can break free from this cycle by letting go of blockages from the past and engaging with life as it unfolds. To help you do this, your experiences in life can be wonderful teachers. Ultimately, they teach you that the pursuit of external acceptance and material success pales in comparison to inner peace and self-discovery. There is something very beautiful hiding inside of you—go find it.

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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-Krit of Shy Masters.
1:02.0	In the deep teachings of surrender and acceptance, people get confused, and they often ask the question about aspirations.
1:14.4	What about aspirations? Okay, let's talk about aspirations but you really can't talk about anything until we're all sure we're
1:19.3	talking about the same language and words mean something to you they mean different to
1:24.2	everybody else and based on your experiences and your knowledge,
1:28.1	et cetera, et cetera.
1:30.7	So before we get to what aspirations mean and what meaningful aspirations are, let's talk about
1:37.6	the state of affairs.
1:39.7	The state of affairs is you're a conscious being.
1:42.4	You live inside yourself.
1:45.0	Everyone should know that. It's not complicated. You're in there.
1:49.0	If I ask you, are you in there? You say yes. You don't know where, you don't know what.
1:55.0	You say, yes, I'm in here, but you don't know where you are in there. You don't know who you are in there.
1:59.0	You don't know anything about yourself.
2:04.5	Normal human being knows nothing about themselves.
2:08.2	They only know about what they like and what they don't like and how to get it and how to avoid it and how they feel.
2:11.5	Not who's in there and what is the nature of self
2:15.6	and where is the seat of self, et cetera.
2:20.1	So that's a clue about aspiration.
2:23.5	Maybe you might want to know who you are, but we start running around, trying to decide what you want.
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