E68: The Illusion of Control and the Power of Acceptance
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It should be obvious that most of life unfolds beyond your control. Your heart beats, your lungs expand and contract, 35 trillion living cells provide you with your body, atoms bond into molecules, and billions of other vital things go on every moment that you do not control. In spite of all of this, you suffer by resisting reality instead of appreciating it. Your desires and struggles come from storing the past experiences you liked and didn’t like and then comparing reality to what you want it to be. Eventually, you will realize that true peace and joy arise not from controlling life but from letting go of your inner blockages and learning to appreciate and fully embrace the gift of creation.
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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-Kradive. |
| 0:59.7 | Jamestr. |
| 1:00.9 | The more you grow, the clearer you get, the more you will realize that the secret to a beautiful life, |
| 1:12.3 | the secret to spiritual growth, is acceptance. |
| 1:16.4 | But acceptance doesn't mean what people think it does. |
| 1:21.3 | Let's look at it. |
| 1:22.6 | If you haven't noticed, the world unfolds in front of you. |
| 1:30.1 | I know you like to think you're in charge and your control and people try to tell you that you are, but obviously I could sit here all |
| 1:37.4 | night and tell you that 99.99% of every single thing that passes in front of you, you have |
| 1:43.5 | zero control over. You may have control over 0.1 front of you, you have zero control over. |
| 1:44.9 | You may have control over point one, but you don't have control over the rest. |
| 1:49.8 | Right now, when you step on the floor, you don't fall through. |
| 1:53.6 | Do you? |
| 1:54.7 | You're doing that? |
| 1:56.4 | Right now your breath goes in and out. |
| 1:58.2 | You're doing that? |
| 1:59.4 | Right now your heartpiece, you're doing that? Right now your heartbeats, you're doing that? |
| 2:01.5 | Right now, 35 trillion living cells divide, communicate, secrete, do all kinds of things. |
| 2:11.1 | You're doing that? |
| 2:12.9 | You're pregnant. |
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