--- title: "10 Trying Quotes By Mooji" description: "10 Trying quotes by Mooji. Plus more from Mooji and more Trying sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/mooji-1987_road_you-are-the-somewhere-you-are-trying-to_139678.png" --- > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/mooji-1987_road_you-are-the-somewhere-you-are-trying-to_139678.png) > [Don't try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/don-t-try-and-save-yourself-the-self-that-is-trying-to-be-saved-is/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/mooji-1987_inspirational_don-t-try-and-save-yourself-the-self-tha_3165645.png) > [Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/let-it-be-whatever-it-will-be-give-up-trying-to-manipulate-this-is/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/mooji-1987_freedom_let-it-be-whatever-it-will-be-give-up-tr_679640.png) > [The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/the-mind-is-like-the-wind-you-re-trying-to-stop-the-wind-dressed-as-a/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d16/mooji-1987_kite_the-mind-is-like-the-wind-you-re-trying_625531.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) > [We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/we-are-identifying-with-what-is-passing-so-fear-comes-we-are-trying/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52e/mooji-1987_change_we-are-identifying-with-what-is-passing_1941871.png) > [Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/forget-about-trying-to-stabilize-the-personal-sense-of-self-it-is/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/mooji-1987_forget_forget-about-trying-to-stabilize-the-per_1909292.png) > [You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/you-are-learning-too-much-remembering-too-much-trying-to-hard-relax-a/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/mooji-1987_bits_you-are-learning-too-much-remembering-to_2247689.png) > [Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/don-t-try-to-change-the-world-first-change-yourself-or-rather-your/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/mooji-1987_change_don-t-try-to-change-the-world-first-chan_1297172.png) > [We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/we-think-there-is-a-knowledge-or-practice-or-surrender-is-needed-that/) [Mooji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mooji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1e/mooji-1987_concepts_we-think-there-is-a-knowledge-or-practic_1681974.png) ## Other authors on Trying ## 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/trying/mooji/#itemlist", "name": "10 Trying Quotes By Mooji", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mooji" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mooji/you-are-the-somewhere-you-are-trying-to-get-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/mooji-1987_road_you-are-the-somewhere-you-are-trying-to_139678.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/mooji-1987_road_you-are-the-somewhere-you-are-trying-to_139678.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/mooji-1987_road_you-are-the-somewhere-you-are-trying-to_139678.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.” — Mooji", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't try and save yourself. 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