Top 200 Michael A. Singer Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “In truth, pain is the price of freedom. And the moment you are willing to pay that price, you will no longer be afraid. The moment you are not afraid of the pain, you’ll be able to face all of life’s situations without fear.”

— Michael A. Singer

2. “You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feel emotions. You are not your body; you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through its eyes and ears. You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things.”

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3. “I am so grateful that surrender had taught me to willingly participate in life’s dance with a quiet mind and an open heart.”

— Michael A. Singer

4. “The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that’s the only time everything will be okay.”

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5. “In the end, enjoying life’s experiences is the only rational thing to do. You’re sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you’re going to be here, be happy and enjoy the experience.”

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6. “No matter what happens below you, just turn your eyes upward and relax your heart. You do not have to leave the seat of Self in order to deal with the darkness.”

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7. “The more you are willing to just let the world be something you’re aware of, the more it will let you be who you are – the awareness, the Self, the Atman, the Soul.”

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8. “You are not the pain you feel, nor are you the part that periodically stresses out. None of these disturbances have anything to do with you. You are the one who notices these things. Because your consciousness is separate and aware of these things, you can free yourself. To free yourself of your inner thorns, you simply stop playing with them.”

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9. “Stress only happens when you resist life’s events.”

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10. “When a problem is disturbing you, don’t ask, “What should I do about it?” Ask, “What part of me is being disturbed by this?”

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11. “One of the essential requirements for true spiritual growth and deep personal transformation is coming to peace with pain.”

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12. “One should view their spiritual work as learning to live life without stress, problems, fear, or melodrama.”

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13. “People tend to burden themselves with so many choices. But, in the end, you can throw it all away and just make one basic, underlying decision: Do you want to be happy, or do you not want to be happy? It’s really that simple. Once you make that choice, your path through life becomes totally clear.”

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14. “Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It’s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.”

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15. “No solution can possibly exist while you’re lost in the energy of a problem.”

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16. “The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything.”

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17. “Your only way out is the witness. Just keep letting go by being aware that you are aware.”

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18. “I am the one who sees. From back in here somewhere, I look out, and I am aware of the events, thoughts, and emotions that pass before me.”

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19. “The spiritual journey is one of constant transformation. In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times.”

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20. “You just make a game out of relaxing in the face of its melodrama. You simply learn how to release the tendency for getting drawn into the energy.”

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21. “My formula for success was very simple: Do whatever is put in front of you with all your heart and soul without regard for personal results. Do the work as though it were given to you by the universe itself – because it was.”

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22. “You must realize that when you defend yourself, you are really defending your walls. There is nothing else to defend in there.”

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23. “It doesn’t matter what others do, unless you decide that it matters to you.”

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24. “What actually gives life meaning is the willingness to live it.”

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25. “If you are willing to experience the gift of life instead of fighting with it, you will be moved to the depth of your being.”

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26. “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it. If you don’t understand this, you will try to figure out which of the many things the voice says is really you. People go through so many changes in the name of “trying to find myself.” They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is simple: none of them. If.”

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27. “This flow has been called Shakti. This flow has been called Spirit. This is what you begin to experience if you hang out with the Self instead of hanging out with inner disturbances.”

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28. “The day you decide you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves – that is the day you will find your way out.”

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29. “Reality is just too real for most of us, so we temper it with the mind.”

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30. “Do not doubt your ability to remove the root cause of the disturbance inside of you. It really can go away. You can look deep within yourself, to the core of your being, and decide that you don’t want the weakest part of you running your life. You want to be free of this.”

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31. “In fact, your thoughts have far less impact on this world than you would like to think. If you’re willing to be objective and watch all your thoughts, you will see that the vast majority of them have no relevance.”

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32. “The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you’ll be clear enough to deal with what’s left.”

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33. “What it means to live spiritually is to not participate in this struggle. It means that the events that happen in the moment belong to the moment. They don’t belong to you.”

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34. “In the end, if you stay happy, you win.”

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35. “Creating thoughts, holding onto thoughts, recalling thoughts, generating emotions, controlling emotions, and disciplining powerful inner drives, all require a tremendous expenditure of energy.”

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36. “The natural ups and downs of life can either generate personal growth or create personal fears. Which of these dominates is completely dependent upon how we view change.”

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37. “The greatest gift one can give to God is to be pleased with His creation.”

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38. “Life is continuously changing, and if you’re trying to control it, you’ll never be able to fully live it.”

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39. “You must be willing to be present right at the place of the tightness and pain, and then relax and go even deeper.”

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40. “Life itself is your career, and your interaction with life is your most meaningful relationship. Everything else you’re doing is just focusing on a tiny subset of life in the attempt to give life some meaning. What actually gives life meaning is the willingness to live it. It isn’t any particular event; it’s the willingness to experience life’s events.”

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41. “What you end up experiencing is really a personal presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark, unfiltered experience of what is really out there.”

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42. “Ultimately, if you protect yourself perfectly, you will never grow.”

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43. “As long as you are defining what you like and what you don’t like, you will open and close. You are actually defining your limits. You are allowing your mind to create triggers that open and close you. Let go of that. Dare to be different. Enjoy all of life.”

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44. “Come to know the one who watches the voice, and you will come to know one of the great mysteries of creation.”

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45. “This is your life – reclaim it.”

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46. “When you are trained, like a great athlete, to immediately relax through your edges when they get hit, then it’s all over. You realize that you will always be fine. Nothing can ever bother you except your edges, and now you know what to do with them. You end up loving your edges because they point your way to freedom. All you have to do is constantly relax and lean into them. Then one day, when you least expect it, you fall through into the infinite. That is what it means to go beyond.”

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47. “Awareness transcends what it is aware of.”

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48. “Spiritual growth exists in that moment when you are consciously willing to pay the price of freedom. You must be willing at all times, in all circumstances, to remain conscious in the face of pain and to work with your heart by relaxing and remaining open.”

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49. “If, for even one moment, you can look at someone with the eyes of true love, you’ll know those eyes are not yours. Your eyes could never look with that amount of love. Your eyes could never be that unconditional. Your eyes could never, even in a million years, see only beauty and total perfection in your beloved. Those are the eyes of God looking down through you.”

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50. “Now this raises a serious question: If so much of what the voice says is meaningless and unnecessary, then why does it even exist? The secret to answering this question lies in understanding why it says what it says when it says it.”

— Michael A. Singer