E91: Allowing Life to Remove Your Blockages

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The foundational flaw in human behavior is the belief that “I’m not okay.” What follows is the lifelong attempt to fix this through external achievements, relationships, and coping mechanisms. Spiritual growth begins by shifting from trying to fix one’s discomfort to inquiring why the discomfort exists in the first place. Life itself becomes the guru, revealing daily why we close our hearts. The only true practice is to let go of resistance in every moment, allowing life to sculpt us into our highest nature, which is already pure joy and love.

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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. Jigrative.
1:00.0	If you want to go somewhere, you have to have an understanding where you are and the direction
1:09.0	you want to go in. you just totally lost and that's
1:15.3	where human beings go awry they don't even understand the beginning point so
1:22.8	they just flounder for their entire lives just thrash around in the water, trying to not drown,
1:30.3	trying to be okay, trying to have a moment's happiness, trying to find something that brings
1:34.3	them peace or joy or safety or something. In other words, they start from the position
1:40.4	that I'm not okay. You have to understand that. That's the big folly of humanity.
1:49.5	They start from the position, I'm not okay. And what life is about is making me be okay.
1:56.1	That's why I married you. You made me be okay. That's why I went on my vacation.
2:01.6	It's going to be okay.
2:03.6	So I took this job.
2:04.6	It made me be okay.
2:06.6	Or at least the money from it will make me be okay.
2:09.6	And you have this constant game of I'm not okay, but I want to be okay.
2:16.6	That's it. That is the definition of humanity. I'm not okay, but I want to be okay.
2:18.6	That's it.
2:21.3	That is the definition of humanity.
2:23.6	That's the human folly.
2:27.8	Everyone tries to do it a different way.
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