Top 35 Gangaji Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you. It may be evoked by any number of people or events. But finally, you must realize you are this love. The source of all love is within you.”

— Gangaji

2. “Be open. And then the truth follows.”

— Gangaji

3. “Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.”

— Gangaji

4. “If you’re laughing, you’re healing.”

— Gangaji

5. “Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.”

— Gangaji

6. “You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.”

— Gangaji

7. “When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.”

— Gangaji

8. “True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.”

— Gangaji

9. “You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.”

— Gangaji

10. “Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.”

— Gangaji

11. “Need nothing and then see what happens.”

— Gangaji

12. “You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.”

— Gangaji

13. “The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.”

— Gangaji

14. “In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.”

— Gangaji

15. “Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.”

— Gangaji

16. “Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances.”

— Gangaji

17. “There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.”

— Gangaji

18. “Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.”

— Gangaji

19. “I am inviting you to discover that deeper than any pattern, deeper than personality, deeper than success or failure, deeper than worth or worthlessness, there is a radiance that is undeniable, always present – the truth of who you are.”

— Gangaji

20. “The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.”

— Gangaji

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

— Gangaji

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

— Gangaji

23. “The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.”

— Gangaji

24. “To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.”

— Gangaji

25. “All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.”

— Gangaji

26. “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.”

— Gangaji

27. “There’s great release, really, in not seeing into the future.”

— Gangaji

28. “I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.”

— Gangaji

29. “Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.”

— Gangaji

30. “Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains...”

— Gangaji

31. “When you desire freedom, then you have to be willing to face what you have been running from in your search for it.”

— Gangaji

32. “Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.”

— Gangaji

33. “My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.”

— Gangaji

34. “Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!”

— Gangaji

35. “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.”

— Gangaji

36. “You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here.”

— Gangaji

37. “When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found?”

— Gangaji

38. “Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.”

— Gangaji

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

— Gangaji