People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

– Joseph Campbell – The Power of Myth

Who can count how many lives we have tasted? Look at the stars. How old are they? And a star is not even sentient. You are sentient. How can you be less in age than a star? You don’t know at all. What you do know is that right now you exist and are here. All take this for granted. However, what should be known is what you are here as. And if what you are here as is clear, who knows this? You want to learn about so many things, but about yourself, you are not sure.

– Mooji – White Fire: Spiritual insights and teachings of advaita zen master Mooji

You say you want to get rid of the noise,

but you and the noise go together.

You have to be you without ‘you’

and all noise will stop.

The real You is the formless witness within.

The person, the noisy one, is only imagined.

To recognize this is Freedom.

– Mooji –

Never assume that you have attained truth. Don’t make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.

– Mooji –

There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself …

It is simply here in you, with you.

It is the fragrance of your own self …

This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

– Mooji –