E86: The Addiction to Self: Breaking Free from the Ego’s Hold
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Spiritual growth begins not by seeking higher states, but by fully recognizing how we built the ego out of thoughts from our past and are now identified with it. Our resultant preferences and suppressed past experiences make us suffer and constrict our awareness to ourselves. True liberation comes not by spiritualizing the ego, but by relaxing behind it and allowing reality to pass through while remaining centered in our true nature as consciousness.
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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. Shaggerative, Jamestrus. |
| 1:02.0 | What you find when you become very mature on the path in your growth, |
| 1:09.0 | everyone wants to think about spirituality as high, |
| 1:12.6 | bliss, joy, love. |
| 1:16.6 | The trouble is, it's not where you are. |
| 1:19.6 | You have to start a dream from where you are. |
| 1:22.6 | You want to go to New York and you're in Florida. |
| 1:25.6 | Don't look at the map for Georgia. You're not going to get there. |
| 1:29.0 | You're going to start right from exactly where you are and find out why you're not moving. |
| 1:34.2 | Find out why you're not where you want to be instead of trying to be where you want to be. |
| 1:39.5 | That's the whole deep growth of spirituality. It is not about getting somewhere. |
| 1:46.8 | It's about ceasing to be where you are. |
| 1:49.9 | Einstein once said, |
| 1:51.6 | there's a beautiful saying about I won't get it right, |
| 1:53.4 | but he said something like, |
| 1:54.5 | in order to become who I will be tomorrow, |
| 1:56.9 | I have to cease to be who I am today. |
| 1:59.7 | That's what it's really about. It's really about the work that you have to cease to be who I am today. That's what it's really about. |
| 2:01.6 | It's really about the work that you have to do |
| 2:04.6 | to find out why you are where you are. |
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