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“The mind is the place the soul goes to hide from the heart.”
― Michael Singer

“You will get to a point in your growth where you understand that if you protect yourself, you will never be free.”
― Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul Lecture Series: Volume 10: The Power of Inner Clarity

“From chapter 11: pain, the price of freedom (page 105)

Let go and give room for the pain to pass through you. It's just energy. Just see it as energy and let it go.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 2: your inner roommate (page 15 from 'The Untethered Soul')

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?”
― Michael Singer

“My experiment with surrender had taught me to always be present in the current moment and do my best to not allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me.”
― Michael Singer

“You think the solution to your inner problems is in the outside world, you think if you change things outside you'll be happy, but nobody has ever truly become better by changing things outside, there's always the next problem. The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them.”
― Michael Singer

“Keep telling your mind many times a day that it's no longer its job to keep trying to solve the problems of the heart! The mind is brilliant but it has its own job to do. It CANNOT solve the painful issues of the heart.
It's hereby relieved of duty!”
― Michael singer , The Michael Singer Podcast

“The highest life I can live is when every single moment before me is better off because it did.”
― Michael Singer

“The mind is a place where the soul goes to hide from the heart. When you can't handle your heart, you go to your mind.

And your mind will try to figure out what to do about it, and then go out and manipulate the world so it doesn't do the things that your heart can't handle.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 11: pain, the price of freedom (page 103)

If you want to grow and be free to explore life, you cannot spend your life avoiding the myriad things that might hurt your heart or mind.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 15: the path of unconditional happiness (page 145 from 'The Untethered Soul')

Meditation strengthens your center of consciousness so that you're always aware enough to not allow your heart to close.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 7: transcending the tendency to close (page 63 from 'The Untethered Soul')

The moment you see the energy getting imbalanced inside, the moment you see the heart starting to tense and get defensive, you just stop.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 2: your inner roommate (page 16 from 'The Untethered Soul')

There's always the next problem. The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference.

To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 10: stealing freedom for your soul (page 97 from 'The Untethered Soul')

But first, you have to get quiet enough that it's not so reactive in there. These trigger points will help remind you to remain centered. Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not mind. You will see that the mind follows the heart. The heart reacts way before the mind starts talking.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 12: taking down the walls (pages 115-116 from 'The Untethered Soul')

Your house is made of your thoughts and emotions. The walls are made of your psyche. That's what that house is. It is all your past experiences; all your thoughts and emotions; all the concepts, views, opinions, beliefs, hopes, and dreams that you have collected around yourself. You hold them in place on all sides, including above and below you. You have pulled together in your mind a specific set of thoughts and emotions, and then you have woven them together into a conceptual world in which you live. This mental structure completely blocks you from whatever natural light is on the outside of its walls. You have walls of thoughts thick enough, and closed enough, to where nothing but darkness is inside that structure. You are so entranced into paying attention to your thoughts and emotions that you never go beyond the borders they create.”
― Michael Singer

“The world is not disturbing you, you are disturbing yourself about the world.”
― Michael Singer , The Michael Singer Podcast

“Keep telling your mind that it's no longer its job to keep trying to solve the problems of the heart! It's hereby relieved of duty! The mind is brilliant but it has its own job to do and it's NOT to solve the painful issues of the heart. You have to this many times a day”
― Michael Singer, The Michael Singer Podcast

“From chapter 9: removing your inner thorn (page 85 from 'The Untethered Soul')

You want to love because you truly love, not because you need to avoid your inner problems.”
― Michael Singer

“take a moment to examine the difference between your experience of the outside world and your interactions with the mental world, you are very accustomed to settling into the playground of the mind, this inner world is an alternate environment under your control, the outside world, however, marches to its own laws. when the voice narrates the outside world to you, your thoughts intermix and influence your experience of the world around you. what you end up experiencing, is really your presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark unfiltered experience of what is really out there.”
― Michael Singer

“From chapter 5: infinite energy (page 41 from 'The Untethered Soul')

Consciousness is one of the great mysteries in life.”
― Michael Singer