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. Gangaji More Quotes by Gangaji More Quotes From Gangaji 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. Gangaji fear-of-death moments overcoming If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, Gangaji meditation doe running Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free.” Are you willing? Or do you just want towait until the world finally gets it and does it your way? Gangaji hurt doe running 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. Gangaji pure results deeds The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you. Gangaji jewels secret heart Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances. Gangaji fulfillment circumstances If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life. Gangaji energy suffering views What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking. Gangaji embrace has-beens love All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity. Gangaji simplicity struggle self Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve. Gangaji self games play I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn't have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life forms, is to be humbled in a deep way that is actually enlivening. Gangaji care dying mean 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. Gangaji coming-home home To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing. Gangaji truly-happy who-you-are awareness You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here. Gangaji suggestions imagine body Trusting yourself is realizing yourself. Trusting life is realizing yourself as life. This is an invitation to our thinking minds to open in trust. We can trust that there is a knowing that is out of the realm of thoughts or emotions or circumstances. When we deeply trust, our minds open to discover what is true, regardless of what we are feeling. The deepest trust is a by-product of this true realization. Gangaji wisdom spiritual thinking When you are free enough to stop searching for freedom, you recognize that freedom is always here, it's your nature as timeless presence. That doesn't mean the circumstances are always free, of course. Gangaji timeless enough mean 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! Gangaji self perfect beautiful True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are. Gangaji simple joy people Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains. Gangaji safety knowing life There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future. Gangaji release seeing
