Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to… — Gangaji Copy Share
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… — Gangaji Copy Share
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… — Gangaji Copy Share
If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself, you will know what is known in the core of… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what you are… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enought, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid… — Gangaji Copy Share
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
