Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Mooji - Page 3

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.

You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.

To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

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

Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass.

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.

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.

All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart, for the Heart is infinite and fills everything.

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

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

A thought may arise: 'It's okay now, but it's going to be different when I step out the door'. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognise these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

Beingness is just joy.

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

Pay attention to that which sees the mind.

When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.

You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.

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.

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.

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

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

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

Whatever comes, don’t push it away. When it goes, do not grieve.

Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking you to look. Enquiry is suited to many people in the West, because we are more mental. And it is very direct. So unsparing is its look that nothing can escape.

Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

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

The simplest aspect of self-enquiry is to just hold onto the sense I AM, the sense of Being. Keep the sense of "I" or "I AM" by itself. Everyone can do this exercise - it brings immediate results.

You cannot be anything that you point to.

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.

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 world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping.

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.

You are here. You are not the one who will go and come. Let what you're suffering from go and come, not you. You stay put.

Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.

You wake up each day from the dream; but to be free, you must also wake up from the waking state.

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.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

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

Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.

Leave everything for one moment, in unending time and just be. This is the majesty of Being

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

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.

Nothing belongs to you or me. Nothing belongs. Everything, everything, everything simply IS.

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper. This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present. In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions. Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails. The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all.

Find that place which is effortlessly at rest within itself. Be there-be one with 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.

The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

Listen soberly: Just be 'I Am'; just stay here! ... There's nothing that can stop you from following this simple advice.

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

Be willing that any feeling can visit your house.

You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

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

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

Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.

Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

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