There are some gems throughout this!
Thanks for passing this along Paul!

Casey Crittenden
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> On Apr 8, 2021, at 8:05 AM, P Edwards <pmedwards@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I came across this from a posting from someone who captured notes on an interview with Michael Singer. So many of these points pierce through me. Hope some also resonate with you.....
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> Below are my notes for the New Harbinger interview about the Untethered Soul. I only took notes of stuff that resonated with me that perhaps wasn't as frequently mentioned in any of Mickey's talks and other resources before.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0F6nsj_Jhg
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> 19:04
> Our whole life is a bodyguard. The fact that the husband comes on time, that the people treat you the way you expect to be treated, the fact that every single thing happened exactly the way you needed it to be, those are your muscled men and bodyguards. As long as that's going on, you're okay... relatively. What if I go there and pay those bodyguards more than you pay them? Your world falls apart. That's what happens the minute anything is not the way you expect it to be.
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> 20:17
> Spirituality is all about dealing with yourself instead of hiding from yourself. Working your way past that panic, that fear, to where it will never return, ever again, and there's nothing but love and joy, unconditional as to what is going on outside.
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> 20:45
> The first step is recognition. You recognize: "Yep, that's true, I'm constantly trying to get things my way."
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> 24:00
> I don't want my state of being to be completely dependent upon somebody else's mood, upon how somebody else does or doesn't do, etc., upon the unfolding of the weather, upon the unfolding of the world. I want to find my true being. I want to find me in here and be okay. Then I'll come into the world. It's not that you don't come into the world. Let me come into the world and be motivated by love, compassion, creativity, inspiration instead of being motivated by fear which is what we're motivated by.
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> 25:13
> "I would like to be okay. What should I do?" First you recognize that despite all the games, and you're a powerful and successful woman, between everything we're doing to try to be okay, that it could fall apart in a minute. Notice that something inside is not okay and it's trying to be okay by manipulating and controlling the outer environment. See how long you've been doing that. How about your entire life? It obviously doesn't work because you're still doing it. If you keep doing something for forty years to the best of your ability over and over again and you're still doing it forty years later maybe you need to wake up and realize "gee, I think it doesn't work." You should be fine by now, look how hard you've tried.
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> 27:30
> You've looked outside to define yourself instead of coming back inside to work with yourself.
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> 30:01
> I'd rather not go camping and enjoy my experience of not going camping than not go camping and make myself suffer because I thought I would be happy going camping.
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> 33:30
> I am making myself miserable and then I'm expecting my husband, or my children, and the money to make me better. I'm gonna kill myself and then have a vacation in Hawaii and it's gonna fix everything. No, it's not. You shouldn't even ever need a vacation. You should enjoy your life so much that every moment of it is as exciting as going anywhere else.
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> 50:57
> I've learned how to deal with rattlesnakes, I've learned how to deal with death, I've learned how to deal with divorce, I've learned how to deal with different things that happen. Doesn't mean I like it, that I want it, that it doesn't cause disturbance when it happens. But I'm not reacting to that disturbance and letting the disturbance run my life. I'm centered and clear inside, noticing that there's the event outside coming in and that it's not comfortable when it comes in. I noticed that. And I relax. I relax and release. And then your initial reaction of disturbance passes.
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> 59:44
> You will be so much better dealing with it because you're actually dealing with the situation instead of dealing with your disturbance about the situation.
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> 1:04:13
> If you have blinds, and they are closed, it is not true you have to beg and pray to the blinds to please let some light in, they're the giver of light. No, they're the blocker of light. Your ego and your way of wanting things are blocking you from feeling love all the time. When the mind gets what it wants, it will open. Then you can feel the nature of your being. So when you feel love, that is who you are. But you won't do it because your mind won't let you, because you're busy protecting yourself. So you need to be willing to to say "I'm gonna let down these shields, I'm gonna take the blinds off the windows so I don't have to pay them to open." Because the light is the natural state.
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> 1:13:29
> You've looked at the sunset and lost yourself completely and said it was a spiritual experience. "I felt like I was looking into the eyes of God." That's because you let go of yourself.
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> 1:34:54
> The further back you get, the more you experience the ecstasy, the joy, the passion, the creativity of the divine.
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