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Jun 2025
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E86: The Addiction to Self: Breaking Fre...

MICHAEL SINGER
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Spiritual growth begins not by seeking higher states, but by fully recognizing how we built the ego out of thoughts from our past and are now identified with it. Our resultant preferences and suppressed past experiences make us suffer and constrict our awareness to ourselves. True liberation comes not by spiritualizing the ego, but by relaxing behind it and ... Show More
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