Skip to content

Circumstances Quote by Gangaji

“When you are free enough to stop searching for freedom, you recognize that freedom is always here, it's your nature as timeless presence. That doesn't mean the circumstances are always free, of course.” quote by Gangaji — Download Open image

“When you are free enough to stop searching for freedom, you recognize that freedom is always here, it's your nature as timeless presence. That doesn't mean the circumstances are always free, of course.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Circumstances Enough Freedom Mean Nature Timeless

More by Gangaji

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

Image

Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances.

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…

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…

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…

If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself, you will know what is known in the core of…

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…

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…

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…

Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have…

Image

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

Image

What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.

Image

Explore all 62 Gangaji quotes

More Circumstances quotes

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

Image

Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances. You and I possess the power to change our thoughts. It is our greatest power - the power to choose. If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax. Look at…

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

Image

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

Image

Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,…

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Image

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Oliver Goldsmith

Image

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond…

Mohamed ElBaradei

Image

It's impossible to know who Donald might have been under different circumstances and with different parents.

Image

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

Richard Greenberg

Image

Being positive helps you to keep away negative thoughts. And helps you to stand in adverse circumstances with the hope that in the end…

Anurag Prakash Ray

Image

It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions…

Zora Neale Hurston

Image

I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.

Image

Browse all 4,418 Circumstances quotes