H.W.L. Poonja Quotes & Sayings

Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear. — H.W.L. Poonja

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched. — H.W.L. Poonja

The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding. — H.W.L. Poonja

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for. — H.W.L. Poonja

All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth. — H.W.L. Poonja

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble. — H.W.L. Poonja

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering. — H.W.L. Poonja

It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been. — H.W.L. Poonja

If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace! — H.W.L. Poonja

Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love! — H.W.L. Poonja

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence ... you are dancing only for a little while you see ... a little while you are dancing. — H.W.L. Poonja

Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. — H.W.L. Poonja

We think we have to be a certain way because we have been taught to be a certain way. Actually the only truth is to keep quiet and see what happens from there. When I feel ill-tempered, when I feel sad, when I feel distant, it's just something that is happening. When I don't compare it to the past and project it into the future, then it's just something that is happening now. It's a way of dying now. — H.W.L. Poonja

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious. — H.W.L. Poonja

Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
That ocean of eternal peace is you.
What is the difficulty that we suffer from?
It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself. — H.W.L. Poonja

Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. — H.W.L. Poonja

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free. — H.W.L. Poonja

Look within,
There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.
You are always Free.
There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching. — H.W.L. Poonja

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion! — H.W.L. Poonja

If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled. — H.W.L. Poonja

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
It is simple.
Follow this. — H.W.L. Poonja

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist. — H.W.L. Poonja

Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself. — H.W.L. Poonja

Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self. — H.W.L. Poonja