Mooji quotes

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.

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.

When you see what is not real, this laughter comes

Live as though you don't exist; like you are two eyeballs floating in space with nothing behind them. No brain attached. Not even hair - Nothing.There is a place inside your own heart, inside your own being that knows the kind of seemingly foolish things I speak and it is totally thrilled to be reminded of this infinite expanse and infinite joy that it is. Find this place.

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

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

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.

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.

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

Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this... Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be.

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

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

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

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

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.

In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.

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.

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

Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.

I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.

If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really Is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.

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.

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

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

Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying

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

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.

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

O Lord...Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, but fully alive inside my heart...remove ‘me’...let there be only you

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

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

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.

Your urge to control life controls you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!

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

Our illness is often our healing.

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

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

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

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

Don't expect anything from anybody, this is also a great freedom. Don't expect things to be different or people to be in service to you or your own life or projections. Feel gradually that natural feeling of detachment. Dont watch constantly with the eyes of relationship and past and so on. Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.

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.

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

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

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.

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

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.

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

If you give yourself one complete minute of focused presence, to simply stop; even to listen to your heart beating, it will take you out of your head and introduce you to the moment which is complete in itself. It is not on the way to another moment. It is not a bridge to another opportunity. It is the timeless perfection So stopand sink into this timeless moment.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in a natural way. Intelligence is there. Emotions can come. Everything can play, but inside there is total serenity and peace. No planning, no strategising, no personal identity is there. Just the space of pure being. It is what we are, but we dream and believe we are not.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Out of the formless the forms appear.

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

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

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

Don't let your mind see through your eyes.

Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.

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.

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.

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

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

There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness

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.

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

When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always.

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

Stop and sink into this timeless moment!

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.

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!

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.

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

The Light of one human being who discovers the Truth has been lighting human existence for thousands of years. Such is the power of a human being who realizes the Truth of who they are.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

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.

Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. A king does not need to go shopping in his own kingdom. Nor does he beg. Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only. All that arises are appearances in consciousness. Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. This is the secret.

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

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

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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