The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

by Michael A. Singer

True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay

To be aware that you are watching the voice

talk is to stand on the threshold of a fantastic inner journey.

Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself. You’re ready

“What part of me is being disturbed

by this?”

“Who is it that sees this?

Worldly means that you think the solution to your inner

problems is in the world outside.

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.

The first problem you have to deal with is your own

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.

The first is you, the awareness,

the witness, the center of your willful intentions; and the other is that

which you...

Isn’t there a continuity of being?

Consciousness is pure awareness.

That is the seat of the Buddhist Self1, the Hindu Atman2 and

the Judeo-Christian Soul. The great mystery begins once you take

The mind is constantly trying to give you

The key is to be quiet.

Once you reach that state, your problems

One of the essential requirements for true spiritual growth and deep personal transformation is coming to peace with pain. No expansion or evolution can take place without change, and periods of change are not always comfortable. Change involves challenging what is familiar to us and daring to question our traditional needs for safety, comfort, and control. This is often perceived as a painful experience.

do. But this pain is not the physical pain that you receive as messages from your body. Physical pain is only there when something is physiologically wrong. Inner pain is always there, underneath, hidden by the layers of our thoughts and emotions. We feel it most when our hearts go into turmoil, like when the world does not meet our expectations. This is an inner, psychological pain.

The psyche is built upon avoiding

this pain, and as a result, it has fear of pain as its foundation. That is what caused the psyche to be. To understand this, notice that if the feeling of rejection is a major problem for you, you will fear experiences that cause rejection. That fear wi...

rejection are infrequent, you will have to deal with the fear of rejection all the time. That is how we create a pain that is always there. If you are doing something to avoid pain, then pain is running your life. All of your thoughts and feelings will be affected by your fears. You will come to see that an...

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you want to be free, simply view inner pain as a temporary shift in your energy flow. There

you feel insecurity, it’s just a feeling. You

can handle a feeling.

You must learn to transcend the tendency to avoid the pain.

Then relax. Do the opposite of contracting and closing. Relax

and release.

Every single time you relax and release, a piece of the pain

leaves forever. Yet every time you resist and close, you

That is what all the noise is inside your mind: an attempt to avoid

stored pain.

On the other side of the pain is ecstasy.

You must be willing to accept pain in order to pass

through to the ot...

Spiritual growth exists in that moment when you are consciously willing to pay the price

of freedom.

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

That which you collected from your past forms a boundary that you intuitively

want to avoid.

you must go through the darkest night in order to get to the infinite light.

Your awareness can