
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

As you went deeper and deeper, you would start noticing a phenomenal thing—you are no longer judging.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Because of this, you naturally begin to center more and more on the spiritual part of your being. You do this not by reaching for Spirit, but by letting go of the rest. There really is no other way. The personal self cannot touch Spirit; you must release the personal self. As you release it, you drift back. As you go further back, you get higher. Y
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how does Spirit normally feel? The truth is, it always feels good. It always feels high. It always feels open and light.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
As you associate less with the physical and psychological parts of your being, you begin to identify more with the flow of pure energy.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Just as rain makes you wet and fire makes you warm, so you can know the nature of God by looking into the mirror of your transformed self. This is not a philosophy; it is a direct experience.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
The Way is in the middle because that’s the place where the energies are balanced. But how do you stop the pendulum from swinging to the outer edges? Amazingly enough, you do this by leaving it alone. It won’t keep swinging to the extremes unless you feed the extremes with energy. Just let the extremes go. Don’t participate in them, and the pendulu
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How long can a pendulum stay at one of its outermost positions? It can only remain there for a moment. How long can a pendulum stay at rest? It can remain there forever because there are no forces moving it out of balance. That is the Tao. It is the center. But that does not mean that it stays static and fixed.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Don’t you understand that every minute you’re a step closer to death?
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Even if something terrible happens, view it as just another experience of life. Death has made you a great promise in which you can find deep peace. The promise is that all things are temporal; they are all just passing through time and space. If you have patience, this too will pass.