Before I Am Quotes

“If you take yourself to be the body and mind only, you will die! When you discover yourself as awareness, the fear of death will not trouble you any longer.”
― Mooji, Before I Am

“What about physical pain? What about suffering? Hand over your existence to existence and keep quiet. All is grace. If you really had the free will and power to shape your destiny, to create your ideal life, you would most probably leave out all discomforts, all that challenges your ego, all that exposes feelings of guilt or shame or anything that threatens your attachments. You would exclude all these and replace them with chocolate-flavoured experiences. [Laughter] But however much you try to construct and secure a life that satisfies your projections, you would still fail to match, in quality and auspiciousness, the life that is unfolding without human intention. A man once said to Sri Nisargadatta, “Maharaj, your words resonate deep within my heart. I feel their power and know them to be true. But if I am to be honest in describing my experience, I would have to admit that throughout my life, I’m continuously experiencing suffering!” And Maharaj replied, “No, this is not true. You are not experiencing suffering, you are suffering your experiencing.”
― Mooji, Before I Am

“Since you are bold and persistent I shall be equally bold: Your questions are not real. My answers are not real. The world as you perceive it is not real. War and peace, selfish and deluded projections of aggressive-natured beings, are equally unreal. Aspirations are unreal. Solutions based in egoic identity are unreal. Nature perceived as separate from one’s self, unreal. I also, as an autonomous entity, am unreal. You—equally unreal. Life itself, as is fashioned inside the human psyche is unreal. Death too, as is imagined based upon the ill-conceived notion that we are merely our bodies and personalities, is unreal. All is illusion—unreal. The Self, timeless and spaceless, immutable, beyond all qualities, alone is real. You must look within to find and confirm this for yourself. Until and unless you do, your comprehension of the world is based on very shaky ground; a ground of naive assumptions and second-hand knowledge.”
― Mooji, Before I Am

“immutable”
― Mooji, Before I Am

“I came here to share some good news with you: You are complete, you are perfection itself, beyond the concept of perfection. You are the eternal principle. You are there before the concept ‘I am’ arose—immovable. From the highest standpoint, you perceive everything as your play. You are all there is.”
― Mooji, Before I Am

“Why does Beingness or God bring about such suffering sometimes? Is it that we deserve it? It is not like that. Suffering enables us to feel compassion and empathy for other beings also. It deepens and lightens our own being by washing off the slime of the trivial, and prepares the soil of the psyche for higher understanding. Adopt an attitude of gratitude in all expressions of life.”
― Mooji, Before I Am

“was dying and I had to lose a lot of weight so that you could live, I would do it for you.”
― Mooji, Before I Am