Bibliotherapy: Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament by Michael A. Singer

Many years ago, I read Singer’s The Untethered Soul and a few months ago, Singer’s new book Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament showed up on the required reading list of my Open Floor Teacher Training. This book includes spiritual ideas and wonderful, provoking thoughts. It is about how to accept reality and the flow of life. He talks about acceptance as non-resistance; how we resist and cling to things and how this creates suffering. Singer discusses how to live life free from the past. My favorite parts of this book were the chapters: The Origin of Matter, The Power of Creation, and It’s Not Personal. It was a comprehensive science lesson on evolution. These ideas landed for me like never before.  

Here are quotes from this book that resonated for me:

“...the elements that make up our world were forged in the stars.” 🌟 

“Resistance creates tension and anxiety, and it makes life a burden.”

“Who are you? When you look out at the mirror, you are not what you see- you are the one who sees it.”

“No, you don’t have a soul- you in there, the consciousness, are the soul.” 💚

“Are you willing to let go of who you thought you were?”

“We live in a world that is so perfect it should constantly blow our minds. But we are so lost in making it all personal that we miss both the greatness of science and the greatness of God.” ❤️

“Experience is the nectar of life.” 🧡

“Normal memory is there when you need it- it does not haunt you throughout your life.”

“Eventually, you will come to realize that it’s not the job, the spouse, or the car that gets old- it’s listening to the mess in your mind that gets old.” 💙

“We best leave reality to either science or God, not to everyone’s individual preferences.” 💜

“The mind becomes a place the soul goes to hide from the heart.” 🤎

“Yet trying to solve inner problems by rearranging the outside is exactly what everybody is doing.”

“Every experience makes you a greater person if you don’t resist it.”

“You’re in there, you’re not okay in there, and you have developed concepts of how everything needs to be for you to be okay in there.”

“The only reason there is a problem is because you defined it that way. You are the problem, and that can’t be solved outside. It can only be solved inside.”

“There’s nothing richer than a fully processed experience integrated into your whole being.”

“Real spiritual practice entails devoting every moment of your life to your liberation.”

Any of those resonate with you? Want to work on evolving, connecting with your soul, or want to straighten out the mess in your head? Coriander Living Collective is here to support you. Just reach out.