Mooji Quotes & Sayings

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. — Mooji

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

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

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

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

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

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

There is a Silence that is totally impersonal.
It is not the fruit of anybody's work.
Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper.
This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present.
In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions.
Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails.
The Ultimate is nobody's achievement at all. — Mooji

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

You cannot be anything that you point to. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

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

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

Don't worry about anything at all.
You are not here by accident.
This form is just a costume for a while.
But the one who is behind the costume,
this one is eternal. You must know this.
If you know this and trust this,
you don't have to worry about anything.
This world is so full of love.
And your heart, your being,
is so full of love, so full of peace.
You don't have to go
to some place else to find peace.
It is right where you are. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

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

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! — Mooji

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

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. — Mooji

The world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping. — Mooji

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

Be willing that any feeling can visit your house. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

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

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

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. — Mooji

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 ... — Mooji

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.. — Mooji

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

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

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

Eternity is not endless time, eternity means timeless. — Mooji

Welcome the One that has kissed you from within.
It is from inside everything comes. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

nature. Take courage. Being free is neither difficult nor distant. I know it has often been conceived, perceived and presented to be rare, remote and difficult, but all that is delusion - a great seeming. I don't know why awakening happens in one heart so completely and in another there is some delay or postponement. I am not deeply concerned about this. But I know that the voice that calls you is true, and where you are being called to is real and true. Heaven is inside your own heart. This is why I am here. I — Mooji

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

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 — Mooji

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. — Mooji

You wake up each day from the dream; but to be free, you must also wake up from the waking state. — Mooji

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

That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play. — Mooji

You are the somewhere you are trying to get to. — Mooji

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 ... — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. Thats just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth. — Mooji

There have been many yogis who have been doing these things, or have been having these experiences for years - and now they are searching for freedom. — Mooji

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

Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water. — Mooji

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

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

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

Beingness is just joy. — Mooji

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 — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

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

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

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. — Mooji

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

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless — Mooji

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

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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

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

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

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

Satsang is here to wash off the minds face and to reveal the face of God — Mooji

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

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. — Mooji

Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world. — Mooji

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

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. — Mooji

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying — Mooji

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

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. — Mooji

Find that place which is effortlessly at rest within
itself. Be there-be one with that. — Mooji

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

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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. — Mooji

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 — Mooji

Throw everything away, forget about it all! — Mooji

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

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. — Mooji