Mooji Quotes

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

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#2. I don't have to be anything at all. I don't even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself.

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#3. Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.

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#4. The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

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#5. 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.'

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.

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#9. Live by the light of your own heart... but make sure this heart is silent and empty.

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

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

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

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#13. Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.

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

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

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. You are the harmony within which all things move. They are just illusion.

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

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

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#21. When you see what is not real, this laughter comes

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#22. 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!

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

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

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#25. Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

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#26. You cannot be anything that you point to.

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#27. Our illness is often our healing.

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

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#29. Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many. Your life is abundant.

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

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#31. Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.

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#32. You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.

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

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#34. When you are free, all who come in contact with you will be blessed. Some may run away, but still they run away blessed.

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#35. Throw everything away, forget about it all!

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#36. Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.

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

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#38. Sometimes, Grace throws you and your 'world' into the washing machine, full spin, so that the fearful and controlling tendency is compelled to offer itself to the Totality - to the will and dance of the Cosmos.

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#39. When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

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#40. 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.

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#41. Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home.

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#42. 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.

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#43. 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?

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#44. Don't belong to anything. Don't belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don't compare or compete. Just Be your Being.

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#45. 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.

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

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

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#48. 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.

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#49. Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death.
Because this death release you into real life.
You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

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#50. 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?

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#51. If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.

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

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#53. Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.

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#54. 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.

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#55. For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.

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

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#57. You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

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

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

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#60. It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart.

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

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

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#63. Be willing that any feeling can visit your house.

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

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

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

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#67. When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

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#68. When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story.

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#69. Be true to Love.
Do not betray Her.
Then, on the day
that the forest of the mind
bursts into flames,
you will not run.
You will remain silent and still;
for this is when Love bears
Her sweetest fruit:
untouched Presence.

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#70. You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness.

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#71. 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.

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#72. All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

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#73. Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.

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#74. Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.

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#75. The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.

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#76. 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.

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#77. You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

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

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#79. 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.

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

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

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#82. 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.

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

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

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#85. 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.

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#86. 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.

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

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#88. Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.

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#89. 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.

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#90. 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.

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#91. Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up

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

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#93. 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.

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#94. Pay attention to that which sees the mind.

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#95. It's not what the mind says.
It's how seriously it is taken.

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

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#97. 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.

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#98. 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.

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#99. 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

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#100. 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!

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