You’re simply sitting in the seat of centered awareness watching your stuff get hit. As long as you’re watching, you’re not getting lost in it…Awareness does not fight; awareness releases. Awareness is simply aware while everything in the universe parades before it.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer; Kindle Edition, 198 pages; Published October 3rd 2007 by New Harbinger Publications
For many years there has been an inherent knowledge centered inside me due to experimentation with mind altering drugs I ingested in the early seventies as a young man searching for enlightened experiences. That knowledge still fortifies my belief in who and what I am. Michael A. Singer skillfully expounds on the ideas surrounding this belief. The following quotations have been filtered from his text in order to move succinctly into this light of knowledge so pertinent and important to living life fully and perhaps not taking one’s self so seriously.
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it…If you watch it objectively, you will come to see that much of what the voice says is meaningless.
True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection. This is done by constantly remembering that you are the one inside that notices the voice talking. That is the way out. The one inside who is aware that you are always talking to yourself about yourself is always silent. It is a doorway to the depths of your being. To be aware that you are watching the voice talk is to stand on the threshold of a fantastic inner journey.
Come to know the one who watches the voice, and you will come to know one of the great mysteries of creation…You live in the seat of consciousness. A true spiritual being lives there, without effort and without intent. Just as you effortlessly look outside and see all that you see, you will eventually sit far enough back inside to see all your thoughts and emotions, as well as outer form.
The subject, consciousness, has the ability to selectively focus awareness on specific objects. If you step back, you will clearly see that objects are constantly passing before you at all three levels: mental, emotional, and physical. When you’re not centered, your consciousness invariably gets attracted toward one or more of those objects and focuses on them. If it concentrates enough, your sense of awareness loses itself in the object. It is no longer aware that it is aware of the object; it just becomes object-conscious.
If you ever want to re-center, just start saying “hello” inside, over and over…Simply relax and be aware that you can hear “hello” being echoed in your mind. That is your seat of centered consciousness.
Everything that did not make it through you, from the time you were a baby all the way to this moment, is still inside of you. It is these impressions, these Samskaras, that encrust the valve of the spiritual heart…most of what you take in does not get blocked; it makes it right through you…Of all these impressions, the only ones that get blocked are those that cause either problems or some extraordinary sense of enjoyment.
You’re simply sitting in the seat of centered awareness watching your stuff get hit. As long as you’re watching, you’re not getting lost in it…Awareness does not fight; awareness releases. Awareness is simply aware while everything in the universe parades before it.
Spirituality is the commitment to go beyond, no matter what it takes…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. You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things..Deep inner release is a spiritual path in and of itself. It is the path of nonresistance, the path of acceptance, the path of surrender.
The Tao is hollow, empty. Like the eye of a hurricane, its power is its emptiness…When you move in the Tao, you are always present. Life becomes absolutely simple. In the Tao, it’s easy to see what’s happening in life—it’s unfolding right in front of you. But if you have all kinds of reactions going on inside because you’re involved in the extremes, life seems confusing. That’s because you’re confused, not because life’s confusing…You can turn your eyes from the sun’s light and live in darkness for a hundred years. If you then turn them toward the light, the light is still there.
Thanks for the restack.
𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎! 𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚐𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚐𝚊 𝚗𝚒𝚍𝚛𝚊 𝙸𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚞 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚎. 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎 𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎