50 Best Mooji Quotes on Love, Life, Silence

Mooji, whose original name is Anthony Paul Moo-Young is a spiritual teacher hailing from Jamaica. He moved to Brixton (London) in 1969 and lived there for many years. He worked as a street portrait painter to make a living. His life changed after he came across a Christian mystic and after which he travelled to India in 1993. He became of follower of Papaji, who was a devotee of Advaita and studied Advaita Teaching with him.

Mooji has many followers all over the world. He currently lives in Portugal but travels all around the world and hosts satsangs (religious gatherings) and retreats. He has also authored many spiritual books. Wherever he goes, people flock to hear his teachings and seek blessings.

Mooji has written many inspirational and devotional quotes that focus on finding the “true self” and understanding it. His quotes encourage to love yourself first and live a fuller life.

Mooji Quotes on Love

1. “Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love, which is the fragrance of your own pure heart.” – Mooji

2. “If you wish to find love, don’t look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the beloved.” – Mooji

3. “Love lives inside the one who is free.” – Mooji

4. “Your mind loves things, but your being just loves to be.” – Mooji

5. “Don’t worry about anything at all. You are not here by accident. This form is just a costume for a while. But the one who is behind the costume, this one is eternal. You must know this. If you know this and trust this, you don’t have to worry about anything. This world is so full of love. And your heart, your being, is so full of love, so full of peace. You don’t have to go to someplace else to find peace. It is right where you are.” – Mooji

6. “Love, loves to love. It’s nothing personal.” – Mooji

7. “Beloved, don’t be a warrior, just be yourself. Don’t waste energy preparing for this mind-battle. You are sharpening your sword to kill dragons that don’t exist.” – Mooji

8. “If you could look inside the heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.” – Mooji

9. “Don’t worry about anything at all. You are not here by accident. This form is just a costume for a while. But the one who is behind the costume, this one is eternal. You must know this. If you know this and trust this, you don’t have to worry about anything. This world is so full of love. And your heart, your being, is so full of love, so full of peace. You don’t have to go to someplace else to find peace. It is right where you are.” – Mooji

Mooji Quotes on Life

1. “The mind has a dilemma. It is afraid of change, deeper change, yet the mind is attracted to life, which is change. Don’t be mixed up in all that business. You merely observe, casually, passively and keep your attention inside your heart.” – Mooji

2. “The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.” – Mooji

3. “When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.” – Mooji

4. “Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many. Your life is abundant.” – Mooji

5. “Life cannot be against you, for you are life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego’s projections, which are rarely in harmony with the truth.” – Mooji

6. “Give life a chance to flow its own way.” – Mooji

7. “Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.” – Mooji

8. “Your urge to control life controls you.” – Mooji

9. “Live by the light of your own heart, but make sure this heart is silent and empty.” – Mooji

10. “You ask: How to live my life? But with that question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.” – Mooji

Mooji Quotes on Silence

1. “There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it.” – Mooji

2. “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

3. “There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.” – Mooji

4. “Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is a blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.” – Mooji

5th Mooji Quote – “When you can bear your own silence, you are free.”

6. “There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper. This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present. In the absence of the ‘person’ there are no distractions. Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails. The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all.” – Mooji

7. “Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate… not following the thought stream.” – Mooji

8. “Everything goes back into silence, and there is nobody there to assess the silence. Silence is not disturbed by thought or speech. Space is not affected by whatever appears in it. You are that. Stay in this imageless seeing.” – Mooji

Mooji Quotes on Mind

1. “Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.” – Mooji

2. “Say to your mind: Get as depressed as you want. I am only going to observe you, but I am not going to join you.” – Mooji

3. “When you think you know something, pride, opinions and argumentativeness can be your emission. When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.” – Mooji

4. “Trying to understand consciousness with your mind is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.” – Mooji

5. “It’s not what the mind says. It’s how seriously it is taken.” – Mooji

6. “Don’t let your mind see through your eyes.” – Mooji

7. “Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.” – Mooji

8. “Mind says, “You’re still outside but you’re almost there.” It seems very encouraging but as long as you believe and accept this idea, it will divide you and send you on a journey of near misses.” – Mooji

9th Mooji Quote – “Maybe the mind is waiting for you to choose freedom so that it can have a rest.”

10. “If you are going to believe your mind every time resistance comes, you are going to be in a long standing relationship of avoidance and suffering.” – Mooji

11. “Mind is there in front of you. Don’t log in.” – Mooji

12. “The ways of the mind are ancient but your Self is timeless.” – Mooji

13. “The mind has a dilemma. It is afraid of change, deeper change, yet the mind is attracted to life, which is change. Don’t be mixed up in all that business. You merely observe, casually, passively and keep your attention inside your heart.” – Mooji

14. “You are already the being, without any condition. Just stop believing the mind.” – Mooji

15. “Let the mind be as fiery as it can be; but don’t identify. Don’t panic. And see what happens.” – Mooji

16. “Within your own being is the only real there is. The teacher only reminds you of the appointment you have within your own being.” – Mooji

Mooji Quotes on Happiness

1. “You need nothing to be happy, but you need something to be sad.” – Mooji

2. “If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.” – Mooji

3. “The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.” – Mooji

4. “I don’t have a future therefore I am supremely happy.” – Mooji

Mooji Quotes on Freedom

1. “When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.” – Mooji

2. “Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.” – Mooji

3. “This is the great opportunity of having the human form, because in this form you may have come to know the formless. Go beyond the sorrows of this world, you are freedom itself. Your nature is eternal, know this and be happy.” – Mooji