This is a curated selection of Gangaji quotes (primarily sourced from publicly available videos, and personally curated by me on my own lifelong learning journey). This page is intended as a learning resource for educational purposes and only meant to offer an overview/introduction. Short quotes aren’t a substitute for source material, so if this page sparks your interest, explore more deeply by checking out Gangaji’s books (Amazon).
Page Contents:
- Self-Inquiry Quotes
- Mind & Objects Quotes
- Stopping & Opening Quotes
- Being & Consciousness Quotes
- Truth & Freedom Quotes
25 Gangaji Quotes on Stopping, Opening, Being, & More
Gangaji Quotes on Self-Inquiry
“Who are you? This is the most important question you can ever ask … This question is the path of self-inquiry.” — Gangaji
“Find out what is always here … That really is the teaching—to inquire, ‘What is always here?’” — Gangaji
“The question ‘Who are you?’ is a question that ends all questioning.” — Gangaji
“When I am not doing anything, who am I?” — Gangaji
“Witnessing is very useful because we detach from our thinking minds … but the witness is still an object. Who is witnessing? … The witness and what is witnessed is the same and inseparable from the awareness that holds them both.” — Gangaji
Gangaji Quotes on Mind & Objects
“There are actually many moments in every person’s life where there’s no thought—only our whole culture references our lives by thought, so we link up thought, to thought, to thought.” — Gangaji
“Everything you think about or even remember about yourself—even the most beautiful moments—are still objects in your mind.” — Gangaji
“All of life is the truth of who I am. This particular mindstream that I have called ‘myself’ is simply an object appearing in life for a brief time, existing because of life, and finally returning to life.” — Gangaji
“The truth of who you are really cannot be remembered because it’s here. It’s not an object in your mind. It’s the subject.” — Gangaji
“No matter how much you try, no matter how much you figure, no matter how much you get what is being said or has been said, whatever you try to do—which is mind activity—you cannot find what is called Self, or God, or Truth.” — Gangaji
Gangaji Quotes on Stopping & Opening
“If you’re trying to direct life, stop … Stop means to open—don’t reach for anything, don’t reject anything.” — Gangaji
“Less present to who you think you are. More present to who you are.” — Gangaji
“You leave the peace to go in search of peace.” — Gangaji
“What is realized in a moment of perfect realization is what has always been present. This is the great laugh that is a part of realization—that which one has been desperately, furiously, relentlessly, with great frustration, searching for has always been present exactly where one is.” — Gangaji
“When you know without a shadow of a doubt that you are this stillness, that you are this awareness, then it doesn’t matter what is on the surface.” — Gangaji
Gangaji Quotes on Being & Consciousness
“You cannot remember freshness. That’s already staleness. And, that is the big rug that has to be pulled out from under the spiritual seeker … The true spiritual search is really not about accumulation … but one of getting down to the the absolute core of beingness.” — Gangaji
“You don’t have to be different from an ordinary human being—with ordinary human trials and tribulations, victories and defeats—to recognize that always whatever is going on circumstantially, emotionally, or mentally, there is this ground of silent beingness.” — Gangaji
“It is so important to discover what changes, and in that to discover what is changeless. But, finally, we have to discover they are the same substance—that its consciousness.” — Gangaji
“It does live your life, but when you recognize that you can actually let it live your life, then your life is a conscious surprise.” — Gangaji
“I now know myself as life. There’s such a profound relaxation in that and also the joy of that.” — Gangaji
Gangaji Quotes on Truth & Freedom
“If you desire freedom above everything else, then that takes care of all the rest.” — Gangaji
“The desire for freedom, for truth, for God, will not be satisfied by anything in the future.” — Gangaji
“Freedom is not something that can be learned, or earned, or lost. It is the truth of who you are.” — Gangaji
“You are what cannot be gained and cannot be lost. You are freedom itself.” — Gangaji
“This is the mystery of the Self—transcending and yet using everything, including technology, for its revelation.” — Gangaji
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