If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of being present and recognizing the inherent richness of life beyond our thoughts and suffering.
Gangaji's quote encourages us to step back from our internal narratives and the continuous stream of thoughts that often focus on our pain and suffering. By doing so, we can reconnect with the essence of our being, which is filled with richness, fullness, and love, allowing us to appreciate the present moment and the depth of our consciousness.
In practice
In a mindfulness workshop, a facilitator quoted Gangaji to emphasize the importance of living in the moment.
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present.
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.
Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.
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