--- title: "2 Attempting Quotes By Mooji" description: "2 Attempting quotes by Mooji. Plus more from Mooji and more Attempting sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/mooji-1987_attempting_attempting-to-understand-consciousness-w_1235172.png" --- > [Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/attempting-to-understand-consciousness-with-your-mind-is-like-trying/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/mooji-1987_attempting_attempting-to-understand-consciousness-w_1235172.png) > [Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/attempting-to-identify-with-the-source-is-an-idea-you-are-already-that/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/mooji-1987_attempting_attempting-to-identify-with-the-source-i_3105702.png) ## More by Mooji > [Feelings are just visitors, let them come and let them go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/feelings-are-just-visitors-let-them-come-and-let-them-go/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/everything-is-happening-spontaneously-and-the-witnessing-of-it-is/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/if-you-are-curious-you-will-learn-if-you-are-desperate-you-will/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/upon-discovering-truth-the-natural-love-one-has-for-oneself-expands/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/trust-your-heart-value-its-intuition-choose-to-let-go-of-fear-and-to/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/each-contact-is-an-opportunity-for-your-own-unique-satsang-with-your/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [God can never be close. God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/god-can-never-be-close-god-can-never-be-close-because-it-would-mean/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/you-are-the-somewhere-you-are-trying-to-get-to/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/all-the-mind-streams-eventually-flow-into-the-one-ocean-beingness/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/keeping-quiet-means-being-without-any-techniques-effort-or-intention/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/it-is-the-conditioned-mind-that-says-i-m-lost-let-mind-be-lost-lose/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/everything-is-just-now-your-existence-is-just-now-just-timeless-now/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [Nothing belongs to you or me. Nothing belongs. Everything, everything, everything simply IS.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/nothing-belongs-to-you-or-me-nothing-belongs-everything-everything/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [The consciousness and life force do what they want... one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/the-consciousness-and-life-force-do-what-they-want-one-minute-they/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) > [In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/in-the-land-of-i-know-there-is-always-competitiveness-jealousy/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attempting/mooji/#itemlist", "name": "2 Attempting Quotes By Mooji", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mooji" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/attempting-to-understand-consciousness-with-your-mind-is-like-trying/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/mooji-1987_attempting_attempting-to-understand-consciousness-w_1235172.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/mooji-1987_attempting_attempting-to-understand-consciousness-w_1235172.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/mooji-1987_attempting_attempting-to-understand-consciousness-w_1235172.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle...” — Mooji", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. 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