Gangaji Quotes

#1. Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity.

Shashi Tharoor

#2. True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

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#3. Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.

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#4. In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

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#5. When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

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#6. Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.

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#7. You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here.

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#8. Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains ...

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#9. But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

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#10. The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

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#11. Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

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#12. I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

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#13. Fufillment has nothing to do with circumstances.

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#14. I failed in some subject but my friend pass in all,today he is an engineer in microsoft and iam is owner of microsoft.
-Bills Gate

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#15. If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.

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#16. Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.

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#17. There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.

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#18. You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.

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#19. If you're laughing, you're healing.

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#20. Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.

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#21. Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

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#22. Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

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#23. Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don't trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.

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#24. The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.

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#25. Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.

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#26. My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.

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#27. To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.

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#28. What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

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#29. You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.

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#30. When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found?

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#31. The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.

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#32. I am inviting you to discover that deeper than any pattern, deeper than personality, deeper than success or failure, deeper than worth or worthlessness, there is a radiance that is undeniable, always present - the truth of who you are.

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#33. Need nothing and then see what happens.

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#34. You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

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#35. What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.

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#36. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

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#37. Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

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#38. All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.

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#39. Be open. And then the truth follows.

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#40. Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

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#41. If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful,
you will recognize that what you are running from does not exist,
and what you are running toward is already here.

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#42. Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting.
In opening unprotected to the experience
that is enslaving you with its torment,
there is the willingness to be free.
Are you willing? Or do yo just want to
wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way?

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#43. Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

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#44. The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you. It may be evoked by any number of people or events. But finally, you must realize you are this love. The source of all love is within you.

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