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about upcoming releases, we invite you to join us at Michael Singer Podcast.com. Daggerative. People make spirituality extremely complicated.

They make a world of life very complicated.

For example, this is how simple life is.

You were born, you dropped down on this planet that's spinning around the middle of absolute

dark empty space.

I tell you all the time, 1.3 million Earths fit inside the sun.

That's a very big number. That means the Earth is extremely

small. You don't pay any attention to the rest. We'll talk about that. That's what makes it

complicated. It's really simple. There's this tiny little planet spinning around a star, and there's 300 billion of those stars in your galaxy.

300 billion suns.

And 1.3 billion Earths fit inside the sun.

And you are fixated on what's going on on that planet.

And you wouldn't even stay here very long.

The planet spent here for 4.5 billion years.

Here, 80, 90 years?

On a tiny little planet in the middle of nowhere?

And I stop by telling you there's 300 billion stars in your galaxy.

There's 2 trillion galaxies.

How often do you pay attention to the rest? None ever. That's why your life is so complicated. Otherwise, it's very, very simple.

You're sitting on a planet for a few years. It's spinning around a star, and every day it rotates

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