Michael A. Singer was studying for his doctorate in Economics in 1971, when he had a spiritual awakening, and left to concentrate on mediation and yoga. He founded the Temple of the Universe in 1975, a yoga and mediation center. He is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, The Untethered Soul.
“If you truly love someone, your love sees past their humanness”
“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
“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 want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. This is the part that thinks there’s a reason not to be happy. You have to transcend the personal, and as you do, you will naturally awaken to the higher aspects of your being. In the end, enjoying life’s experiences is the only rational thing to do. You’re sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Go ahead, take a look at reality. You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. You’re going to die anyway. Things are going to happen anyway. Why shouldn’t you be happy? You gain nothing by being bothered by life’s events. It doesn’t change the world; you just suffer. There’s always going to be something that can bother you, if you let it.”