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Michael Singer

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first: 2021-10-27
most recent: 2021-10-27
sittings or episodes: 1
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“In order to be who you are, you must be willing to let go of who you think you are. That's what's meant by you must die to be reborn. And as you let that go, and he will help pull it out, right? And so you use it spiritually and you will see that it will help you more than any meditation or anything. You meditate. So that you have the center so you can let go of what life is doing, the real growth is letting go.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You must die to be reborn. I love that Christ said that. Understand that those are Christ's words. You must die to be reborn. It means you must be willing to let go of your personal self, of your psychological self, of the complaining voice, your identity, all that your image.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The crazy being indicted in the thing. Yes. There it is, right? That's the life. If you live that life, you can go very, very deep and you can handle anything. You can handle anything and all of it can help you go to God. You just use it to go to God. That's what Ramdos used to say. Use it to go to God.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was the opposite. It was if I have one chance opportunity in my life for liberation, God just gave it to me. Am I going to get rid of myself? How am I going to finally pull that thing out, that big thorn of me, the me who cares what everybody thinks and scared to death that somebody would think I did something wrong or anything like that, right? Wow. And so I chose to do that. And so my mind wasn't saying why me. My mind was saying take it. Take it. Just take it, please take it away. I don't want to carry this burden anymore. Not the burden of the thing, the burden of me.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The peace came over me, and I just rested back into it, and my attitude was, my God, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to let go of anything is left of me. Because, as you said, it was pretty noisy stuff, right? And there was a part of me, right, that of course would never want to be in that situation. I didn't do anything, right? But I let go of him. The whole personality, the whole Michael Sanger, all right? Let go of him, right? This is not a situation that he should be in, but he is. It's God's grace. It's something that God, I felt that God was reaching down to pull whatever was left of my ego out, and he used this situation to do it. We defended ourselves, of course, right? But I knew I didn't do anything. And so the question was, are you willing to use the situation to just complain and carry on how unfair it is? Are you willing to use the situation to let life reach in to the bottom of your heart and pull out whatever's left of your self-concept, your ego, your...”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. Well, in the sense that there was somebody who had done things in the company for sure, right, had been taken kickbacks and so on, and he pointed the finger up and said they knew what I was doing. Did you? No, of course not. Of course not. Well, I have to ask. Well, of course you can ask. Of course.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Company was basically yes. The government came in and accused the entire executive team of our company. I was CEO at the time of fraud.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right How should we react? And when you bring that piece to the table, you spread it everywhere. And I know you know that. I've heard you say that. And so all of a sudden, it's not just that you're better able, but everything around you is better able to deal with the situation. So to answer what you asked me throughout the interview is how do you deal with these terrible situations? Aren't they real? They are real, and you should deal with them. But first, be ready to deal with them. Come from a space of peace, and you'll find that you can deal with anything.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. And now you sit there and say, how much better able are you to deal with the situations that need to be dealt with from that place of peace than you are from that disturbance?”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of self. The sword of the seed of self, you start to feel this beautiful love and joy. And just it literally like a vacuum, it starts to pull you up into it. And me, God, is the source of that, the source of spirit. And as you come closer into it, you get closer to God. And there's a joy that can open up inside you that is so strong that nothing will ever pull you out. Your personal self will no longer pull you out. There's no struggle anymore, right? There's just this strength, the spiritual strength. You've turned the corner.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is. The beauty is you do not have to work out every one of your issues. You do not have to slick. Oh my God, I got so many. I'll never do that. You do not have to. What will happen is you'll relax behind enough times to where your seat of awareness will now be centered more in your seat of consciousness instead of the issues keep pulling you out. When you do that, you will start to feel something open up inside of you. I guarantee you they call it spirit, call it whatever you want. You will start to feel a strength, a power behind you, not in front of you where the thorns are, behind you where you've been leaning back into. And it will support you and strengthen you and feed you, and the rest of the stuff will just fall away because it looks so meaningless.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You relax and don't touch it and relax behind it, and it will come up and push its own way out. It's almost as if your heart doesn't want that inside. And so just like the body pushes splinters out? It will try to push it out, but you won't let it because the moment it tries to push out, you push it back down”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's like if your body started to hurt, you don't say shut up. You say, well, I wonder what's wrong. He's trying to talk to me. That is your heart telling you something's wrong inside of me. You want to get it out. And so you just appreciate life as your teacher. And then ultimately, just we get it down. How do you get it out? You relax and it will work itself out. That is my experience.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that you're in So you got to decide: do I want to go out there and try to make sure nobody ever goes too slow in front of me? Or, you know, devotes your life to that? Or would you like to say, look, I would like to enjoy my drive to work, even if somebody cut me off, but I can't because I just got extremely disturbed due to my past experiences.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, but net result is all you do, which I know you teach all the time, you talk about all the time, what do I do when I feel a disturbance, right? You relax. But people say, I can understand. I just said I was disturbed. How can I relax?”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The difference is you always start with saying Do I want to be disturbed? Do I like being disturbed? No, I don't like being disturbed. So I have a choice. An event happened outside. I can deal with that event without being disturbed. In fact, I promise you I didn't deal with it better without being disturbed. Disturbance isn't helping you. Disturbance is hurting you. And so you are way better off learning how to deal with the disturbance. And that is also how you remove the thorn. They are directly related. The fact that the situation outside stimulated this disturbance inside of you means that you've uncovered something stored inside of you that needs to come out.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the spiritual journey, is it not? Yes, it is. When something hits it, you will feel a disturbance pop up inside of you, right? And you have to choose right then, what are you going to do about that?”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With me. Exactly right. The alternative is to understand you can remove that thorn inside of you the same as you can remove it outside. And if you remove it, you will never have to think about it again. And you can start to enjoy your entire life. And that is spirituality.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the whole thing. And that's the game that we play how do I build a life that avoids touching all this stuff that happened to me that I can't handle when they happen, I couldn't handle it. And now it's caused all these soft spots inside of me, thorns. So I need to create a life. Train everybody around me, all right, so they don't ever touch that.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the analogy we're using is if you had a thorn that was touching directly to a nerve so much so that anything that touched it caused pain inside of you. So if you walk, if you go to walk through the woods and the leaf touched it, you weren't able to walk. If you were trying to interact with people, it caused a disturbance. And the key point of it is you have two choices. One is you can either try to avoid everything in your life that touches that thorn, or you can do this amazing alternative, which is take it out. All right. If you try to avoid it, you will be avoiding it for your entire life. Which is what we're all doing, right? Yes, it is.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've given you your whole life. What were you doing with your whole life? How did you not be aware that your time is limited and you're supposed to be using it for something meaningful?”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next thing is when you're watching, see whether that voice is saying is really helpful. In other words, is it really giving you good advice? Or is it just a neurotic voice talking inside your head? And you will find that in every situation you're in in life, there is a higher way to deal with the situation Of course, there are situations that are difficult to deal with, but there is still a higher way to deal with that situation than being reactive, which is the only thing the mind is going to do.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't do that in any way, shape, or form, right? Life is a natural unfolding of reality. You are supposed to harmonize and work with it. You don't give up and let it take over, right? Like if you get on a horse and you're scared. You have to be very good writer, right? But that doesn't mean let the horse go wherever they want. You learn how to interface and interact with life in a wholesome participatory way. Fear doesn't let you do that. So letting go of fear is not letting go of life.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fear comes up out of your heart. That's a very natural thing. It's human. All right? You are watching it. You see it. You have the right to relax. Let it pass right through you. If you don't do that, you're going to try and fix it. You're going to try and control situations outside so you don't ever feel the fear. And it all starts to bother you. That's what it means you'll fall. And eventually you'll lose your consciousness.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Basically, happens is we've gone to the mind and said, I'm not okay. How does everything need to be for me to be okay? And then we are devoted ourselves to try and create that situation. It doesn't work, but we don't know that yet. And so we try to create situations that we think will make us be okay. And when things start changing that don't match that model,”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just want you, I'll give you a vacation, go to Hawaii, right? Or sit in the corner over there and go into ecstasy. Which one do you want?”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what it means. Yeah. And what's beautiful when you say, because I know you know it, is the true freedom is freedom from yourself.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That now you can look at reality and you will know what to do. Just the fact you don't have all this static, right? Means the quiet one who's clear will look at reality and it will be pretty obvious what it is for you to deal with.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What will happen is when you let go of the noisy mind, you will end up in a seat of quiet, which I know you'll have to talk about. You'll end up with a seat of quiet because that's what it is back there. It's quiet. It's a stillness, stillness. Stillness, right? And my experience is...”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can still go to work. You still take care of the kids. You just lean away from this mess that the mind is doing to amplify and overemphasize or over-exaggerate whatever's going on.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All you have to do is get to the point on your everyday life, every moment of life is a spiritual experience. I know you know that. Yes, I do. That's why we're here on two contents. And the reason it becomes a spiritual experience is because you've realized you are causing the vast majority of your own problems due to your mental reactions. So as life unfolds on a daily basis, you have the right to choose not to do that”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So because I did all of that and tried all of that, I am so proud to come back and tell you no, you don't need to do that. In fact, you don't need to do it.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that is my mind speaking. Yes. So you're going to do one or two things. One is to start, you're either going to lean into it and get involved. It'll pull you in. Yes, which is what most of us do, or you have the right. You have the right to relax and lean away. And what you're going to do is start to get some space. And you will learn over time that that's the smartest thing you ever did. Why? Because you gave it room to pass through and it will pass right through.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just you can use words, I just relax and lean away from it, right? Yes, it's true, you end up leaning into the seat of self, but I lean away from the noise the mind is making.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So basically, event is happening outside. You're talking to somebody, enjoying the conversation, and all of a sudden they say something that hits something inside of you, a soft spot, and your whole mind, your heart starts to close, your mind starts to figure out, why did they say that? Did I say something wrong? And you go south. You go somewhere, right? And you notice yourself starting to get involved in that reaction. And so at that moment, you have to decide, do I want to solve this? Does this need to be solved? And do I need to think about it? Or am I willing to just relax and let it pass?”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your mind is continuing, life is following in front of you, but you are aware that your mind is moving, that the world is unfolding, but your seat of consciousness is transcendent to that. It's centered at a deeper level. And all of it just goes right by. And you don't have the same relationship with it that you used to have. It's something you're watching, not something you are.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's beautiful. So you are then more conscious in that dream. Than you normally would be. Because you're awake. In a sense, you're awake within the dream. That is what the loose itself is. And now do that in your real life.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The example we use in the book is that you can have a lucid dream in which some people know about that, that instead of you're lost in your dream, sometimes you know you're dreaming. Have you ever had one of those? Oh, I love it. Where you're aware that you're dreaming.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At this stage of my growth, who I am, is the one who's in here, who notices the thoughts come up, who notices the emotions come out of the heart, and who sees whatever is in front of my senses. I am the seer. I am the one who sees.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So if you continue to just get involved in the mind, in the thoughts of the mind, the true spiritual path doesn't take place.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the question. Right, and that's the key. What I love that you said is that really is the beginning of spirituality. That is. To separate what you're not from what you are. If you don't do that, you're going to stay lost. The self is spiritual. The one who's watching is the gateway to spirituality.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You are there watching these thoughts. And sometimes people say to me, But which of those are me? None of them are you. You are the one who's watching.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“None is the most important That's the key, right? So far, we can't say what you are, because that's a thought, right? Right, just you know you're not the thought. Why? Because I'm watching it.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And more and more as I watch that, I realize it never shuts up, that it talks about everything. It judges everything. It thinks about everything.”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's something we listen to on a regular basis. The problem is we think it's us. So, for example, you look at a vase and it says, God, look, that's a very interesting shape, but I don't really like the color that much. It reminds my grandmother's vase. And all of a sudden we have somebody narrating and talking inside our head That's not you, right?”
2021-10-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Michael Singer: Free Yourself From Negative Thoughts (From October 4, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source