Top 200 Michael A. Singer Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “You gain nothing by being bothered by life’s events. It doesn’t change the world; you just suffer. There’s always going to be something that can bother you, if you let it.”

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53. “You don’t have to constantly be mulling over what you said or what this person thinks of you.”

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54. “Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance.”

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55. “You have to understand that it is your attempt to get special experiences from life that makes you miss the actual experience of life.”

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56. “Contemplate this, and let go of the idea of a judgmental God. You have a loving God. In truth, you have love itself for a God. And love cannot do other than love. Your God is in ecstasy and there’s nothing you can do about it. And if God is in ecstasy, I wonder what He sees when He looks at you?”

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57. “Again, you have a subject-object relationship with your thoughts. You are the subject, and thoughts are just another object you can be aware of. You are not your thoughts. You are simply aware of your thoughts.”

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58. “You end up loving your edges because they point your way to freedom.”

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59. “When you walk through a beautiful botanical garden, you feel open and light. You feel love. You see beauty. You don’t judge the shape and placement of every leaf. The leaves are of all sizes and shapes and they face every-which-way. That’s what makes them beautiful. What if you felt that way about people? What if they didn’t all have to dress the same, believe the same, or behave the same? What if they were like the flowers, and however they happened to be seemed beautiful to you?”

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60. “Letting go of yourself is the simplest way to get closer to others. The.”

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61. “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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62. “How could I possibly explain the great freedom that comes from realizing to the depth of your being that life knows what it’s doing?”

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63. “Unfortunately, most of us are not that wise. We’re really not trying to be free of our stuff; we’re trying to justify keeping it.”

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64. “Consciousness is the highest word you will ever utter. There is nothing higher or deeper than consciousness.”

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65. “Set your eyes on the highest state you can imagine and don’t take them off.”

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66. “Once you clearly see the disturbed part, then ask, “Who is it that sees this? Who notices this inner disturbance?” Asking this is the solution to your every problem. The very fact that you can see the disturbance means that you are not it. The process of seeing something requires a subject-object relationship. The subject is called “The Witness” because it is the one who sees what’s happening.”

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67. “When you get clear enough, you will realize that the real problem is that there is something inside of you that can have a problem with almost anything.”

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68. “If you truly love someone, your love sees past their humanness.”

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69. “A Samskara is a blockage, an impression from the past. It’s an unfinished energy pattern that ends up running your life. In.”

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70. “Unconditional happiness is the highest technique there is. You don’t have to learn Sanskrit or read any scriptures. You don’t have to renounce the world. You just have to really mean it when you say that you choose to be happy. And you have to mean it regardless of what happens. This is truly a spiritual path, and it is as direct and sure a path to Awakening as could possibly exist.”

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71. “When you feel the pull, like somebody pulling on your heart, you just let go. You fall behind it. You simply relax and release. And no matter how many times you’re pulled, that’s how many times you relax and release. Because the tendency to get drawn in is constant, the willingness to let go and fall behind has to be constant.”

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72. “So there are two ways you can live: you can devote your life to staying in your comfort zone, or you can work on your freedom. In other words, you can devote your whole life to the process of making sure everything fits within your limited model, or you can devote your life to freeing yourself from the limits of your model.”

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73. “So you decide to use life to free yourself. You become willing to pay any price for the freedom of your soul. You will realize that the only price you have to pay is letting go of yourself. Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. It doesn’t matter what others do, unless you decide that it matters to you.”

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74. “See it feel jealousy, need, and fear. These feelings are just part of the nature of a human being.”

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75. “So there are two ways you can live: you can devote your life to staying in your comfort zone, or you can work on your freedom.”

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76. “If with one breath all of this can change, then I want to live at the highest level while I’m alive. I’m going to stop bothering the people I love. I’m going to live life from the deepest part of my being.”

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77. “Stop defining the disturbed mind as a negative experience; just see if you can relax behind it. When your mind is disturbed, don’t ask, “What do I do about this?” Instead ask, “Who am I that notices this?”

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78. “Let go right then. Do not rationalize, blame, or try to figure it out. Don’t do anything. Just let go immediately, and allow the energy to go back to the highest center of consciousness it can achieve. If you feel shame, let it go.”

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79. “The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.”

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80. “You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feel your emotions. You are not your body; you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through its eyes and ears.”

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81. “The first problem you have to deal with is your own reaction. You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside.”

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82. “You don’t fight the mind. In fact, you don’t even try to change it. You just make a game out of relaxing in the face of its melodrama.”

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83. “You can wake up in the morning, look forward to the day, and not worry about what will happen. Your daily life can be like a vacation. Work can be fun; family can be fun; you can just enjoy all of it. That does not mean you don’t do your best; you just have fun doing your best. Then, at night when you go to sleep, you let it all go. You just live your life without getting uptight and worrying about it. You actually live life instead of fearing or fighting it.”

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84. “That which is holding you down can become a powerful force that raises you up.”

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85. “You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside.”

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86. “If you really want to see why you do things, then don’t do them and see what happens.”

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87. “Worldly means that you think the solution to your inner problems is in the world outside.”

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88. “Real spiritual growth happens when there is only one of you inside. There’s not a part that’s scared and another part that’s protecting the part that’s scared. All parts are unified. Because there is no part of you that you’re not willing to see, the mind is no longer divided into the conscious and subconscious. Everything you see inside is just something you see inside.”

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89. “In the name of attempting to hold the world together, you’re really just trying to hold yourself together.”

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90. “If you want permanent peace, permanent joy, and permanent happiness, you have to get through to the other side of the inner turmoil.”

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91. “You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience.”

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92. “Just as everything that happens outside in the physical world requires energy, everything that happens inside requires an expenditure of energy.”

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93. “For instance, somebody says something, and you start to feel the energy get a little strange inside. You will actually start to feel a tightening. That is your cue that it’s time to grow. It’s not time to defend yourself, because you don’t want the part of you that you would be defending. If you don’t want it, let it go. You.”

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94. “How can you define yourself as the things that happened to you? You were aware of your existence before they happened. You are the one who is in there doing all this, seeing all this, and experiencing all this. You do not have to cling to your experiences in the name of building yourself. This is a false self you are building inside. It is just a concept of yourself that you hide behind.”

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95. “If you spend your time hoping that it doesn’t rain tomorrow, you are wasting your time; Your thoughts don’t change the rain.”

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96. “The very fact that you can see the disturbance means that you are not it.”

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97. “Your center of consciousness is always stronger than the energy that is pulling on it. You just have to be willing to exercise your will.”

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98. “We now experience the daily need to defend our self-concepts rather than our bodies.”

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99. “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.”

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100. “You will eventually get conscious enough so that the minute you see the energy start getting strange, you stop. You stop getting involved in the energy.”

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