Your Inner Roommate (Part 3)

Once you clearly see the disturbed part, then ask, ”Who is it that sees this? Who notices this inner disturbance?” Asking these questions is the solution to your every problem. The very fact that you can see the disturbance means that you are not the disturbance. The process of seeing something requires a subject-object relationship. The subject is called “The Witness” because it is the one who sees what’s happening. The object is what you are seeing, in this case the inner disturbance. This act of maintaining objective awareness of the inner problem is always better than losing yourself in the outer situation. This is the essential difference between a spiritually-minded person and a worldly person. Worldly doesn’t mean that you have money or stature. Worldly means that you think the solution to your inner problems is in the world outside. You think that if you change things outside, you’ll be okay. But nobody has ever truly become okay by changing things outside. There’s always the next problem. The only reals solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference.

Michael Singer
from The Untethered Soul