158 Quotes by Michael A. Singer

The difference is that when your consciousness is not centered within, it becomes totally focused on the objects of consciousness.

The first problem you have to deal with is your own reaction. You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside.

Just as everything that happens outside in the physical world requires energy, everything that happens inside requires an expenditure of energy.

You simply realize that defining what you need in order to stay open actually ends up limiting you. If you make lists of how the world must be for you to open, you have limited your openness to those conditions. Better to be open no matter what. How.

And it’s not just when you try to be quiet. It has something to say about everything you look at: “I like it. I don’t like it. This is good. That’s bad.” It just talks and talks. You don’t generally notice because you don’t step back from it. You’re so close that you don’t realize that you’re actually hypnotized into listening to it.

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance.

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 really don’t need more time before death; what you need is more depth of experience during the time you’re given.

A Samskara is a blockage, an impression from the past. It’s an unfinished energy pattern that ends up running your life. In.