E64: Mastering Life: The Art of Handling Everything

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The most fundamental decision you can make about life is either I can handle it or I can’t. Suffering stems from the inability to process life’s experiences, leading to avoidance, resistance, and the need for control. Instead of trying to manipulate external conditions to feel OK, true growth comes from learning to handle whatever arises. The key to spiritual development is to stop storing past negative experiences, welcome challenges, and develop the ability to accept and engage with life as it unfolds. Spirituality is not about getting what you want—it’s about reaching inner wholeness and having a positive impact on the world around you.

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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. Jaggeredive, gyrgymesters.
1:01.0	In general, people make a mess out of life, out of spiritual life.
1:09.0	They just basically make a mess.
1:11.6	When in reality, things are very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
1:15.6	very, very, very, very, very simple.
1:17.6	You have two choices.
1:19.6	You either handle life or you don't handle life.
1:23.6	There's nothing in between.
1:25.6	Things happen if you haven't noticed all over the place.
1:29.8	Every single moment in all of Einstein's time and space continuum, there was something
1:35.2	going on.
1:36.6	Pluto, Saturn, galaxies far far away, next door, inside your stomach.
1:43.0	Things are going on. It's a happening place either you can handle it or
1:48.9	you can't it's just as simple okay it's that simple and i'll tell you secret if you can't handle it
1:58.4	you're not doing well if you can can handle it, you're doing fine.
2:04.1	Now, let's define handling and not handling for a moment.
2:07.7	Being able to handle something does not mean you don't do anything about it.
2:12.7	People misunderstand surrender acceptance.
2:15.7	They are inner states.
2:18.1	What you're surrendering is your inability to handle it.
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