Gangaji
Quotes
A contemporary spiritual teacher known for her teachings on self-inquiry, awareness, and living in the present moment. She emphasizes that peace and fulfillment are already present within each individual and need only be recognized. Her dialogues invite seekers to look beyond their conditioned identities and discover their true, boundless nature. Her approach blends clarity with compassionate guidance.
Gangaji
Quotes
A contemporary spiritual teacher known for her teachings on self-inquiry, awareness, and living in the present moment. She emphasizes that peace and fulfillment are already present within each individual and need only be recognized. Her dialogues invite seekers to look beyond their conditioned identities and discover their true, boundless nature. Her approach blends clarity with compassionate guidance.
You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.
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.
You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.
I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.
If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what you are running from does not exist, and what you are running toward is already here.
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.
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.
When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.
