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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Let’s say you have a gondola with a hot air balloon on it, and it’s tethered to the ground with ropes. If you want to go up, don’t put more hot air in the balloon or more things that will lift it up. Basically, untie the tethers, and it will naturally go up …So, the right thing to do is not worry about going up—just let go of what’s holding you down. And, if you will let go of those tethers, believe me, your whole being will go up, naturally, exactly at the pace that it should. Everything will unfold perfectly, but you have to be willing to let go of what’s holding you down. Michael Singer
“All of a sudden you realize life is so simple: it unfolds in front of you, and you dance with it … The highest life you can live is that every single moment that unfolds in front of you is better off because it did.” — Michael Singer
“‘Hi, are you in there?’ Then the question is, ‘Who is aware that they are in there?’ Our tendency is to think that I am the body—I am this package of body, and mind, and emotions … Self-realization, in its simplest sense, is to say you have realized who is in there—you have realized that you are not your mind, you are not your emotions, you are not your body … Self-realization is that you have returned to the seat of being.” — Michael Singer
“The higher Self has freed itself of the bondage of the lower self by doing what? By knowing it’s not ‘me’, and I don’t have to spend my time servicing it. I can rest back into the nature of my being. That’s the beginning of true self-realization and true liberation.” — Michael Singer
“You are a great being, and that is true of every single person that walks the face of this earth … The fact that you took human birth means that your will and your soul is evolved enough to be transcendent to every single force that can draw on it.” — Michael Singer
“There is only one consciousness. Consciousness is not something that evolved through evolution. Consciousness is what was in the beginning and will be in the end; it is the beginning and end of reality.” — Michael Singer
“People don’t have a soul; they are the soul.” — Michael Singer
“If you’ve worked enough on yourself, you don’t need anything, you’re not looking for anything. It’s like the joy of interacting with life is what feeds you … You are complete and whole within yourself. You need nothing.” — Michael Singer
“If you are fulfilled, you don’t sit there and think what do I need in order to be okay … If you are living every experience fully, then death doesn’t take anything from you. There’s nothing to take because you’re already fulfilled. That’s why the wise being is always ready to die.” — Michael Singer
“There is nothing ‘bad,’ there’s just experiences that unfold that we learn from … Serve the moments that are unfolding in front of you.” — Michael Singer
“All of a sudden you realize life is so simple: it unfolds in front of you, and you dance with it … The highest life you can live is that every single moment that unfolds in front of you is better off because it did.” — Michael Singer
“The highest state you have ever experienced is simply the result of how open you were. If you don’t close, it can be like that all the time … unending inspiration, unending love, and unending openness. That is the natural state of a healthy heart.” — Michael Singer
“The highest technique is the technique of life—of using life to see that you’re closed to certain things and also that you’re open to certain things.” — Michael Singer
“The highest being who is most capable of solving the problems of this world is the one that can be at peace with every single thing that comes into them.” — Michael Singer
“The experiencer merges with the experience—that’s union.” — Michael Singer
“Creativity doesn’t come from the mind. Creativity pours into the mind, and then the mind analyzes it. Creativity comes from the Self; it comes from the deepest part of your being, from your center.” — Michael Singer
“Your will, the power you have, is stronger than any force that can ever distract you or do anything to you. You are the strongest thing in there. Will is the power of Self.” — Michael Singer
“You shouldn’t ever need a vacation. You should enjoy your life so much that every moment of it is as exciting as going anywhere else.” — Michael Singer
“It was like getting on a magic carpet following the flow of life instead of following the noise inside my head.” — Michael Singer
“‘Ego is the masquerading self’ (Yogananda) … In other words the facade you pulled over your consciousness to define yourself.” — Michael Singer
“I’ll do every single thing that a spiritual person would do, then I’m spiritual. No, you’re not, it’s nothing. It’s the biggest trap that could possibly exist … Do not try to put nice white lights around your garbage and sit there and say, ‘I’m pure’. That is spiritual ego.” — Michael Singer
“Defensiveness is the nature of ego.” — Michael Singer
“There should be no cage. The soul is infinite … Decorating your cage with beautiful experiences, fond memories, and great dreams is not the same as going beyond. A cage by any other name is still a cage. You must be willing to go beyond.” — Michael Singer
“What are you having a problem with? What you’re going to find out is you’re having a problem with your mind. Your mind has decided what you want to be happening and what you don’t want to be happening, and that’s what you’re having a problem with.” — Michael Singer
“Anger is anger, and it’s coming from a personal place. What it’s going to do is create more anger on the other side.” — Michael Singer
“What is a desire? Having a way you want it to be … The probability that the world in front of you is going to unfold exactly the way you decided you want it to be is zero.” — Michael Singer
“The cause of suffering is that you have a way you want it to be … The cause of suffering is that you decided how you want it to be and now you suffer when it’s not that way … You honestly believe that you get to make up what the moment in front of you should be like and that it really should be that way, and you get upset when it’s not that way, and therefore you suffer. — Michael Singer
“Suffering is a state of not being okay, a state of disturbance, and now I need to do things in order to try and make it so I’m not disturbed.” — Michael Singer
“Why am I not enjoying the journey of what’s going on? If you study that carefully and watch it, you’re going to see it is because you have limited your happiness to events being exactly the way you define them to be.” — Michael Singer
“Life is not bothering you. You are bothering yourself about life … This is more important than meditation. This is the most important thing. If you’re going to bother yourself about everything, what are ya gonna take 15 minutes and try to offset your whole day of bothering yourself? How about we learn to not bother ourselves?” — Michael Singer
“Are you dealing with the core, or are you dealing with the facade? We are all dealing with the facade and trying to get the outside world to support the facade so that we don’t have to deal with the core.” — Michael Singer
“What does it mean to grow personally? It means to notice that you have issues inside yourself. You think you have issues outside. No, you have issues inside … You don’t deal with what’s outside until you’ve dealt with what’s inside.” — Michael Singer
“Take the seat of objective observation and notice what is going on inside. Don’t judge what’s going on inside. Don’t decide what’s supposed to be going on inside. Just notice.” — Michael Singer
“You realize that you are not that part; you are the one who’s noticing that … The only part that is safe and consistent is you who’s noticing … You just notice that you’re noticing.” — Michael Singer
“Your relationship to what you see is always one of subject-object. You are the subject, and what you are looking at is the object. There are many different objects coming in through your senses, but there’s only one subject experiencing them—You … You have become separate from who you are because you’re busy paying attention to the object of consciousness instead of your seat of consciousness.” — Michael Singer
“The minute you notice, you relax. That’s the highest technique that exists … Over time you have created a space inside of you by relaxing into the seat of Self.” — Michael Singer
“Your spiritual being is transcendental. That being is independent of this world. It is watching the world, but it is not of this world. It is the consciousness that is aware of what it’s looking at.” — Michael Singer
“Start with what we call ‘witness consciousness’ … You are always the witness. You are always there … The highest growth and the one that really leads to deep spirituality is, ‘I’m the witness’ … I’m talking about the deepest state. I’m in the witness. I see what’s going on.” — Michael Singer
“Krishnamurti called it the ‘seat of objective observation’. But, you will not be willing to look at yourself objectively while you are judging yourself … Your consciousness has extricated itself from being in it. It didn’t get rid of it yet, but it can watch it, it can see it … Can you achieve a seat of objective observation where you are watching your mind?” — Michael Singer
“Don’t ever misunderstand what’s meant by objective observation or witness consciousness. It is not something you do, it is not an act of will, it is not a place you go—it is the state of being aware of what is going on inside your mind … You are not in your mind. You’re sitting on the couch of Self watching the mind just like you sit on the couch and watch the TV … Whatever the mind is saying, you are watching that.” — Michael Singer
“There’s another choice when the yickiness comes up inside and you are conscious of it—you are aware, you’re the witness—and you see that you’re not comfortable with it, let it go.” — Michael Singer
“Maintain your seat of witness consciousness. Things are going to happen which tend to pull you in; you’ll feel a tendency to get pulled in to the disturbance … Your consciousness gets drawn to the place of maximum disturbance.” — Michael Singer
“You are practicing what I call extricating your consciousness, freeing your consciousness, liberating your consciousness, from having to watch what’s going on in there.” — Michael Singer
”You are aware of these different aspects of your being; you are not an aspect of your being … If I take away what you’re aware of, you’re still aware that it’s not there. If I take away your awareness, it’s over, I’ve turned off the light, there’s nobody there. That’s who you are.” — Michael Singer
It’s the birthday of the man who said: “All I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.” That’s painter Edward Hopper, born in Nyack, New York (1882). By the time he was 12, he was already six feet tall. He was skinny, gangly, made fun of by his classmates, painfully shy, and spent much of his time alone drawing.
After he finished art school, he took a trip to Paris and spent almost all of his time there alone, reading or painting. In Paris, he realized that he had fallen in love with light. He said the light in Paris was unlike anything he’d ever seen before. He tried to re-create it in his paintings.
He came back to New York and was employed as an illustrator at an ad agency, which he hated. In his spare time, he drove around and painted train stations and gas stations and corner saloons.
Hopper had only sold one painting by the time he was 40 years old, but his first major exhibition — in 1933 at the Museum of Modern Art — made his reputation. His pieces in that show had titles like Houses by the Railroad, Manhattan Bridge Loop, Room in Brooklyn, Roofs of Washington Square, Cold Storage Plant, Lonely House, and Girl on Bridge.
“If we pay attention, we will realize that every moment around us there is a world that we do not create—that’s been there for 13.8 billion years—and there are trillions of cells in your body that are doing what they’re supposed to do, all of nature, everything. And, you wake up and you realize, ‘I’m not doing any of this. I didn’t make my body, I didn’t make my mind think, I don’t make my heart beat, I don’t make my breath breathe—yet I have this notion that I have to make things happen. Yet, all throughout the universe things are happening everywhere, and I’m not doing them. So, why exactly am I the one that’s in charge of what’s unfolding in front of me?’ And, what you realize at some point, is that you’re not. That the moment in front of you that’s unfolding is no different than all the zillions of other moments that aren’t in front of you that are unfolding in accordance to the laws of nature, the laws of creation. So, you start to practice saying, ‘I don’t want to check inside of me first to see what I want and what I don’t want. I want to pay attention to what the universe is creating in front of me—just like it’s creating everywhere I’m not—and let me see how I can participate in that, be part of that, instead of interfering with it with my desires and my fears.’ That’s living from a place of surrender.” — Michael Singer
“Your relationship with God is the same as your relationship with the sun. If you hid from the sun for years and then chose to come out of your darkness, the sun would still be shining as if you had never left. You don’t need to apologize. You just pick your head up and look at the sun. It’s the same way when you decide to turn toward God—you just do it.”
“What if you knew that the next person you’d see would be the last person you would ever see? You’d be right there soaking it in, experiencing it. It wouldn’t matter what they were saying; you’d just enjoy hearing the words because it would be the last conversation you’d ever have. What if you brought that kind of awareness to every conversation? That’s what happens when you’re told that death is around the corner: you change, life doesn’t change.”
“It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death. No person or situation could ever teach you as much as death has to teach you. While someone could tell you that you are not your body, death shows you. While someone could remind you of the insignificance of the things that you cling to, death takes them all away in a second. While people can teach you that men and women of all races are equal and that there is no difference between the rich and the poor, death instantly makes us all the same.”
“It’s actually a shocking realization when you first notice that your
mind is constantly talking. You might even try to yell at it in a feeble
attempt to shut it up. But then you realize that’s the voice yelling at
the voice:”
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
“The psyche is built upon avoiding this pain, and as a result, it has fear of pain as its foundation. That is what caused the psyche to be. To understand this, notice that if the feeling of rejection is a major problem for you, you will fear experiences that cause rejection. That fear will become part of your psyche. Even though the actual events causing rejection are infrequent, you will have to deal with the fear of rejection all the time. That is how we create a pain that is always there. If you are doing something to avoid pain, then pain is running your life. All of your thoughts and feelings will be affected by your fears.”
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