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The Untethered Soul
- 200 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 2007
- 11 editions
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1 About this book
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself is a 2007 book of spiritual self-help by Michael A. Singer. It begins with the voice that talks constantly inside a person's head, which Singer calls the inner roommate, and asks who it is that hears it. From that starting point the book moves through awareness of oneself as the observer of thoughts and feelings, the energy of the heart and the tendency to close it, letting go of old pain instead of protecting it, and taking down the walls built around the self. The closing chapters turn to how to live in the light of all this.
- Self-help
- Philosophy
- Self
- Consciousness
- Identity (Psychology)
2 What to expect
A short book of spiritual self-help that asks you to notice the voice in your head and to see yourself as the one who watches it. Its recurring advice is to stay open and to let painful thoughts and feelings pass through instead of resisting them. It is written in plain, non-technical language, comes at its central point from many angles, and is reflective in manner, with little in the way of practical exercises.
Good for readers who want: self-improvement and philosophy.
3 About Michael A. Singer
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Michael A. Singer
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