Gangaji Quotes

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.

If you're laughing, you're healing.

Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.

Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.

There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.

To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.

You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.

Be open. And then the truth follows.

You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.

Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances.

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

Need nothing and then see what happens.

What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.

Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.

My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.

What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

Fufillment has nothing to do with circumstances.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.