This page lists some of the all-time best Michael Singer quotes. Enjoy!
Page Contents:
- Spirituality & Spiritual Growth Quotes
- Ego & Suffering Quotes
- Awareness & Witnessing Quotes
- Surrender & Letting Go Quotes
- Liberation & Self-Realization Quotes
50+ Michael Singer Quotes on Surrender, Witnessing, Self-Realization, & More
Michael Singer Quotes on Spirituality & Spiritual Growth
“Find out who you are. Who are you in there that’s watching? Who are you in there that sees me? Who are you in there that notices the heart hurts? Who are you in there that notices all of this? That is what spirituality is about; it’s not about anything else. It’s about self-realization. That’s what that word means. Realize who you are … You start exploring the nature of your being instead of exploring how to make the psyche be okay … You spend your life freeing yourself from yourself. You spend your life realizing me who’s watching this disturbance is not disturbed … You’re seeing it, but you’re not it. You’re the one who sees it.” — Michael Singer
“Spirituality doesn’t sit there and say, ‘Renounce the world. Don’t deal with it. Go live in a cave somewhere.’ No. Spirituality says, ‘Don’t live in what your mind is making up because it takes you out of harmony with reality’ … It’s not Eastern or Western. It’s not weird. It’s not Christian or Jewish or Hindu. It has nothing to do with any of that. It’s reality. Who is willing to come in harmony with reality?” — Michael Singer
“The most important thing to learn is how to be okay with reality … The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything.” — Michael Singer
“Spirituality is never about getting what you want. And spirituality is never about avoiding what you don’t want … It’s about finding out why you have a problem inside and working with the root cause.” — Michael Singer
“I hope you’re having a good time, but the truth of the matter is you’re not … Spirituality says, ‘Why are you not having a good time?’ not ‘What do I need to happen so that I have a good time?’” — Michael Singer
“What spirituality says is ‘wake up’ … Spirituality is all about dealing with yourself instead of hiding from yourself.” — Michael Singer
“There is nothing else to do on your spiritual path except remove the obstacles to spirituality. Once you do that, and to whatever degree you do that, it just is the natural state of things. Spirituality is the natural state of things … If you remove the obstacles, you are spiritual. There’s nothing else to do. Period. Nothing.” — Michael Singer
“There are no techniques to achieve God. There are techniques to remove the obstacles that you put in the way of God, but there are no techniques to achieve God.” — Michael Singer
“‘Distraction’ is a very spiritual word. It means your consciousness got drawn over there … ‘Distracting’ is the most spiritual word you’ll ever use. It means it pulls you away from yourself … When something distracts you, it draws your consciousness toward it.” — Michael Singer
“The disturbed forces inside of you are the road map to spirituality … Growth means you got rid of something inside of you that was causing currents and disturbances. That’s the way to deal with disturbances. The Buddhists call it working at the root. Working at the root cause, not the reaction. Are you willing to do that? That’s the question of spiritual growth.” — Michael Singer
“As you become clearer in life you realize that spiritual growth and personal growth are exactly the same thing … One of the greatest realizations and gifts is when you realize that your spiritual journey and your life journey are exactly the same thing … The highest spiritual path is life itself. If you know how to live daily life, it all becomes a liberating experience.” — Michael Singer
“The truth of the matter is the state of your being is going to determine the quality of your life.” — Michael Singer
Michael Singer Quotes on Ego & Suffering
“‘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 — 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
“A wise person wakes up and says, ‘There’s something wrong with me. I want to fix it. I don’t want to compensate for it. I don’t want to be distracted from it.’ And so, you start doing what’s called working on yourself instead of working on everybody else.” — Michael Singer
“Clearly the personal self can be released, and when it’s released you don’t get triggered anymore … Anything that you are willfully using to help raise your consciousness above this personal noise is beneficial.” — Michael Singer
“You don’t have to find where you’re blocked; your blockages come to you.” — Michael Singer
“You have to want the result more than you’re afraid of the discomfort.” — Michael Singer
“No experience is traumatic. Your inability to handle it makes it traumatic.” — Michael Singer
Michael Singer Quotes on Awareness & Witness Consciousness
“There is an alternative way of life and what it says is: if you are in there, and you are, then you are not the hurting heart, it is just something you’re experiencing. You are not the disturbed mind, it is something you’re experiencing.” — 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
Michael Singer Quotes on Surrender & Letting Go
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“A wise being comes into the moment with a sense of humility. I don’t know anything. I’ve hardly experienced anything. How can I just take the little bit I experienced, sum it together, and say, ‘Now I know what’s supposed to happen next’? That’s absurd.” — Michael Singer
“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
“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
“When it’s all said and done, and you get to that edge where you feel energy pulling you in and you’re approaching the high states, there’s only one thing that’s going to take you across and that’s surrender—the complete letting go of your will, of your concepts, of your views, of your practices, everything. It’s just a melting into the absolute, a melting into the higher. That in the end is the highest state. Everyone taught that: Christ taught that, Buddha taught that, they all taught that. You need to just completely let go of yourself.” — Michael Singer
“Surrender is the highest place, letting go is the highest state. Once you learn to do that it all takes care of itself all by itself … You always let go. There is never ever a time that the highest dharmic right thing to do is not let go … It is always the highest thing to do to let go.” — Michael Singer
“There’s no duality in any way, shape, or form. I find that it’s always coming from the same place if you are willing to let go of your personal self … Christ said, ‘You must die to be reborn.’ That is exactly what we’re talking about. You let go of the personal self … It’s not that your consciousness expands, it ceases to contract … As you let go of yourself, you start to experience the nature of who you are.” — Michael Singer
“There’s this fount of inspiration and creativity that’s always flowing inside of you, and it connects with what’s unfolding outside. It’s almost as if they’re coming from the same place. I always feel that’s what Lao Tzu meant by the Tao—that there’s a way in which the unfolding of the world in front of you and what is going on at the depth of your being are coming from the same place, and they are really the same thing, and you just surrender to that and you allow this fount of beautiful creative inspiring energy to interact with the beauty, no matter how ugly it is, of creation exists in front of you.” — Michael Singer
“This is your spiritual practice. What? Letting go. When? Always … If something comes up, relax and release … It’s always R&R: relax and release.” — Michael Singer
“I beg you to pay attention to what takes you down because that’s where you’re not surrendering … I don’t get pulled away by the distraction. Now you have a definition of what it means to be centered. Consciousness remains in the seat of Self even though a distracting event took place and began to pull on it, it came back to its center.” — Michael Singer
“Clarity means I’m not being disturbed by my psyche—by the impressions that got left on me, personal things, based on my past experiences … If you want to have a full life, you can’t be running around running after these reactions that were left from the past.” — Michael Singer” — Michael Singer
“Learn to stay open no matter what happens. If you do, you get for free what everybody else is struggling for: love, enthusiasm, excitement, and energy.” — Michael Singer
Michael Singer Quotes on Liberation & Self-Realization
“‘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
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