Randall The Untethered Soul
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Michael A. Singer)
Loc. 196-97 | Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It’s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes problems.
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Loc. 203-4 | When energy builds up inside, you want to do something about it. That voice talks because you’re not okay inside, and talking releases energy.
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Loc. 230-32 | You re-create the world within your mind because you can control your mind whereas you can’t control the world. That is why you mentally talk about it. If you can’t get the world the way you like it, you internally verbalize it, judge it, complain about it, and then decide what to do about it. This makes you feel more empowered.
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Loc. 234 | In the thought world there’s always something you can do to control the experience.
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Loc. 239-42 | You will come to see that the mind talks all the time because you gave it a job to do. You use it as a protection mechanism, a form of defense. Ultimately, it makes you feel more secure. As long as that’s what you want, you will be forced to constantly use your mind to buffer yourself from life, instead of living it.
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Loc. 244-45 | True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection.
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Loc. 257-58 | If you want to achieve peace in the face of your problems, you must understand why you perceive a particular situation as a problem.
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Loc. 274-75 | 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.
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Loc. 291-94 | Basically, you’re not alone in there. There are two distinct aspects of your inner being. The first is you, the awareness, the witness, the center of your willful intentions; and the other is that which you watch. The problem is, the part that you watch never shuts up. If you could get rid of that part, even for a moment, the peace and serenity would be the nicest vacation you’ve ever had.
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Loc. 302-3 | You’re ready for real transformation when you finally say, “Look at this thing. It’s ruining my life. I’m trying to live a peaceful, meaningful existence, but I feel like I’m sitting on top of a volcano.
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Loc. 629-31 | Creating thoughts, holding onto thoughts, recalling thoughts, generating emotions, controlling emotions, and disciplining powerful inner drives, all require a tremendous expenditure of energy.
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Loc. 889-91 | … the natural flow of your energy will purge the stored patterns from your heart. Your reward is a permanently open heart. There is no more valve. You live in love, and it feeds you and strengthens you.
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Loc. 984-85 | If you want to be free, then every time you feel any change in the energy flow, relax behind it. Don’t fight with it, don’t try to change it, and don’t judge it.
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Loc. 987-90 | It’s actually about letting go of the pull that the energy itself has on your consciousness. The disturbed energy is trying to draw your attention into it. If you use your inner willpower to not go with it, and just remain seated within, you will notice that the distinction between the consciousness and the object of consciousness is like night and day.
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Loc. 1002-4 | A wise person remains centered enough to let go every time the energy shifts into a defensive mode. The moment the energy moves and you feel your consciousness start to get drawn into it, you relax and release. Letting go means falling behind the energy instead of going into it.
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Loc. 1050-51 | … change is the very nature of life.
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Loc. 1178-79 | When a blockage gets hit, it’s a good thing. It’s time to open up internally and release the blocked energy. If you let go, and permit the purification process to take place inside, that blocked energy will be released.
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Loc. 1380 | The root problem is that you don’t feel whole and complete within yourself.
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Loc. 1390-91 | … get to know people instead of needing them.
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Loc. 1405-6 | … stop telling your mind that its job is to fix your personal problems. This job has broken the mind and disturbed the entire psyche. It has created fear, anxiety, and neurosis. Your mind has very little control over this world.
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Loc. 1407-10 | You have given your mind an impossible task by asking it to manipulate the world in order to fix your personal inner problems. If you want to achieve a healthy state of being, stop asking your mind to do this. Just relieve your mind of the job of making sure that everyone and everything will be the way you need them to be so that you can feel better inside. Your mind is not qualified for that job.
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Loc. 1505-7 | … deep inside there is pain that you have not processed. Your attempt to avoid this pain has created layer upon layer of sensitivities that are all linked to the hidden pain.
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Loc. 1702-3 | That which you collected from your past forms a boundary that you intuitively want to avoid. That’s natural,
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Loc. 1953-54 | each moment of each day is unfolding and you neither have control, nor crave it.
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Loc. 1993-94 | If anything can cause disturbance inside of you, it means it hit your model. It means it hit the false part of you that you built in order to control your own definition of reality.
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Loc. 2069-70 | The purpose of your life is to enjoy and learn from your experiences.
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Loc. 2072-73 | Events don’t determine whether or not you’re going to be happy. They’re just events. You determine whether or not you’re going to be happy.
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Loc. 2103-4 | If you learn to stay open at all times, great things will happen to you. You simply have to learn not to close.
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Loc. 2198-99 | be on a stress-free vacation. It is not life’s events that are causing problems or stress. It is your resistance to life’s events that is causing this experience.
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Loc. 2245-47 | Imagine if you used relationships to get to know other people, rather than to satisfy what is blocked inside of you. If you’re not trying to make people fit into your preconceived notions of what you like and dislike, you will find that relationships are not really that difficult.
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Loc. 2357-58 | It is death that makes life precious.
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Loc. 2601-2 | What if it is really true that God is not judging? What if God is loving? We all know that true love doesn’t judge.
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Loc. 2611-12 | But guilt and fear do not open your connection to the Divine; they only serve to close your heart.
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Loc. 2651-53 | Contemplate this, and let go of the idea of a judgmental God. You have a loving God. In truth, you have love itself for a God. And love cannot do other than love. Your God is in ecstasy and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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