Mooji is a spiritual teacher originally from Jamaica. Mooji is a disciple of Papaji, a devotee of the Advaita and non-dual master Ramana Maharshi. Mooji shares self-inquiry, directing his students to the non-dual Self by encouraging them to question who or what they are at the deepest level. May his quotes inspire you to live a life that is true to what you feel in your heart.
1. “You need nothing to be happy.” Mooji
2. “The mind has a dilemma. It is afraid of change, deeper change, yet the mind is attracted to life, which is change. Don’t be mixed up in all that business. You merely observe, casually, passively and keep your attention inside your heart.” Mooji
3. “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
4. “Life cannot be against you, for you are life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego’s projections, which are rarely in harmony with the truth.” Mooji
5. “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 a blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.” Mooji
6. “But more that consciousness or beingness is conversing with itself about itself.” Mooji
7. “You don’t know how things are going to work out. Don’t make premature conclusions.” Mooji
8. “Neutrality is the greatest resting place for perception, it is the hammock of the being. This is the most wonderful thing when your own senses become so empty of the ‘You’ that you begin to see the harmony of existence and feel it within your own self.” Mooji
9. “The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.” Mooji
10. “There is power in you that manifests all activities in life. It is not just your mind responsible for this. No, it is that inner power that is becoming more and more interested in itself.” Mooji
11. “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.” Mooji
12. “I’ve opened your wings so you can fly.” Mooji
13. “Every thought, every emotion is only a tourist, and I am not a hotel. Let them come and let them go.” Mooji
14. “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.” Mooji
15. “It is not what the ego says, it is how much it is believed.” Mooji
16. “Surrender your fear. Something will come that is greater than what the fear is trying to protect.” Mooji
17. “Whatever comes, don’t push it away. When it goes, do not grieve.” Mooji
18. “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
19. “You never have to prove your own worth, for you are already complete within.” Mooji
20. “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.” Mooji
21. “Give life a chance to flow its own way.” Mooji
22. “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.” Mooji
23. “When we look with the ‘I’ we dream. When we look for the ‘I’ we awaken.” Mooji
24. “When we are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream, but enjoy the dream being free.” Mooji
25. “When you can bear your own emptiness, you are free.” Mooji
26. “Ignoring the mind is a beautiful disciplined practice. This is what many of the sages did. they ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its potency when it is ignored. ” Mooji
27. “Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.” Mooji
28. “Throw everything away, forget about it all.” Mooji
29. “What needs to be known arises spontaneously in you.” Mooji
30. “I am not telling you, you are good enough. I am telling you, you are complete and perfect.” Mooji
31. “Your mind loves things, but your being just loves to be.” Mooji
32. “Love lives inside the one who is free.” Mooji
33. “Your urge to control life controls you.” Mooji
34. “You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.” Mooji
35. “Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.” Mooji
