Mooji Quotes

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

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#2. Whatever comes, don't push it away. When it goes, do not grieve.

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

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#4. 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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#5. If you take yourself to be the body and mind only, you will die! When you discover yourself as awareness, the fear of death will not trouble you any longer.

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

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

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#8. Out of the formless the forms appear.

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#9. 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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#10. 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?

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#11. 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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#12. 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.

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

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

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#17. 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

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

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#19. 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.

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

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#22. Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

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#23. In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

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

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#26. Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

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#27. 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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#28. 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.

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

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#30. Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit.

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

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

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#33. When you don't want to be interesting, you are free.

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

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

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#37. 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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#38. 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.

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

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

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#42. 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.

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

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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.

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

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

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#50. If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

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

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#52. Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying

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#53. Our illness is often our healing.

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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.

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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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.

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

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#63. 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.

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

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

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

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#67. Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.

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

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

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

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

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#74. 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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#75. The world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping.

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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. When one is genuinely ready, Truth finds a way to introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling of separation.

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#79. 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.

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

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#82. 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..

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

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#84. 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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#85. 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.

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

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#88. You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.

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#89. 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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#90. 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.

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#91. Don't try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.

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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. Beingness is just joy.

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

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

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#99. 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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#100. 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.

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