Mooji Quotes

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes.

Don't let your mind see through your eyes.

As your satsang deepens, the debris starts floating to the surface bringing much discomfort to the body-mind. Now is not the time for therapy or analysis. Simply leave it to the Sovereign Power whose benevolence washes away all delusion. Remember this!

Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your Heart, by trusting the inner guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'response-ability', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.

As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.

If you sit down and just keep quiet ... you are in the state of Self-Awareness..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate ... not following the thought stream ... not pursuing the senses, no imagination ... s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort ... then, by itself ... out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come ...

When you see what is not real, this laughter comes

You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.

So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play.

Beingness is just joy.

Out of the formless the forms appear.

The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self.

There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.

It does not matter what comes up. What matters is who you are, the one perceiving it.

When one is genuinely ready, Truth finds a way to introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling of separation.

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing ...

Awareness cannot be at the end of a process
because the very striving, and the process itself,
is arising and appearing in the Awareness
which is timelessly present.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.

Be willing that any feeling can visit your house.

There have been many yogis who have been doing these things, or have been having these experiences for years - and now they are searching for freedom.

Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness.

Mind is there, in front of you. Don't log in.

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.

The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme,
Yes, absorb me.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.

Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!

Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

My love, stay here.
Going in search of Self (as a goal) is illusion;
You are already the One Self.
You will purchase the map,
Only to find you are already Here.

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.

Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.

We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.

The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal
but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.

When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.

You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it is to understand its unreality.

The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!

You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it ... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.

The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.

Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate ... not following the thought stream ...

Throw everything away, forget about it all!

Don't try to change the world.
First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding.
You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature.

There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?

Everything takes you back to yourself. When you get there, you know you never left. You only dreamt you left. You have never been other than that. You are only dreaming due to the idea of 'I am the body.'

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

Mind and body have taken the journey, but the real home place is your own heart. It is infinite and so wherever you go, you are always Home.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Focus your mind on 'I Am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully 'Here' and fully 'Now'. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.

I don't tell you what you should do or not do; I only show you who you are
-the timeless and unchanging awareness.
When this is firmly established inside you,
your life will unfold spontaneously and joyously.

You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.

We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow some kind of merging with the truth. This is an idea, a thought that will keep you searching forever for some blissful experience that will last - no experience lasts. Who is watching this? Don't try to imagine it. You will only create another concept an imagined object and a lot frustration. Just be that. - and don't expect it to be wow experience ... don't expect it to be anything.

That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

The sage sees only the Self. The person sees lots of persons. One sees from wholeness, one sees from fragmentation. Both are you.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

You say you want to get rid of the noise, but you and the noise go together. You have to be you without 'you' and all noise will stop. The real You is the formless witness within. The person, the noisy one, is only imagined. To recognize this is Freedom.

You have to see and meet God in this life.
Don't let this life go by and miss discovering the Supreme One.
You will find him inside as your constant being.
Pray: Holy mother, holy father, holy spirit,
don't give me the illusion that even one second belongs to me.
All is you. I, also, am you and yours.
For only like this does your life stand the chance to be miraculous.

Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.

How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?

When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.

Satsang is here to wash off the minds face and to reveal the face of God

In reality there is no such thing as someone being able to "stay permanently" in the Self. No one has ever done it: the Buddha couldn't do it, neither could Christ do it. Rather, the Self has been recognized as what we are, and it is effortlessly and timelessly perfect, always. In truth, there is no actual "in and out" of the Self, no fluctuation - for these are seen to arise within the immutable awareness.

You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that

Honor your seeing ... digest your seeing ... otherw ise it becomes just another thing you file away in the mind's department of philosophy ... yo u're here for much more than knowledge ... you are here for Self-discovery..

Welcome the One that has kissed you from within.
It is from inside everything comes.

Our illness is often our healing.

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound. You will know every being, look in the eyes of every being, and you know, you will recognize yourself. These things are not poetry. They are simple truths. You will experience them. In your heart they will be confirmed.

Often one is more attached to the journey than to the discovery ... because the journey happens in the mind ... the discovery happens in the heart ...

Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.

The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.

The consciousness and life force do what they want ...
one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force ...
who can work it out?

Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

There is a way to again be in real time with the universe,
but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.
It is by finding your true Self.
When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.

Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. Thats just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care ...

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.

God can never be close. God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite. Therefore, God is our Reality.

The Self cannot leave You.
Awareness cannot leave You.
Everything else will leave You.
But Awareness is what You Are.

Don't worry about anything at all.
You are not here by accident.
This form is just a costume for a while.
But the one who is behind the costume,
this one is eternal. You must know this.
If you know this and trust this,
you don't have to worry about anything.
This world is so full of love.
And your heart, your being,
is so full of love, so full of peace.
You don't have to go
to some place else to find peace.
It is right where you are.

Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.