“I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.” ~ Emil M. Cioran
If You Engage Too Much
“If you engage too much in outside validation, you lose the path to yourself.” ~ Wim Hof
To Suffer Without Complaint
“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
10 Uplifting Quotes From Mooji to Question the Mind
“Don’t wait for your mind to be quiet. As you are made aware of your natural state of being… this is the wonderfulness of consciousness… you’re simply here.” ~ Mooji
Speaking on the consistency of the self, and the chaos of the mind, Mooji has been speaking wise words since he opened his chai shop, where he didn’t speak for long periods in 1998, but simply served tea and studied under Papaji for some time in India.
He began meeting some determined seekers in his apartment in Brixton Hill, where his Satsang was born. Gradually, the seekers began to ask questions about how to have a direct experience of the truth, and people enjoyed basking in Mooji’s radiant presence and love. He has been speaking on the mind and on that radiant love ever since, and now spends time in Portugal, the UK, and India.
When his master died, he famously said: “The Master does not die. It is the mister, the person, that dies. The Master, that timeless and unborn principle within, alone exists and is the Real.”
Here are Quotes From Mooji to Question the Mind
“Your heart is the light of this world, don’t cover it with your mind.”
Like all of Mooji’s messages, the coming into being involves being more in a heart space, or heart energy. Once you, not quieten, but ignore the mind, you begin to come more into heart energy and it begins to be revealed. Slowly, our heart space increases as we let go of the mind, and begin to see the true self.
The self gets space and leverage to be who it really is; a consistent, unchanging, unshakable awareness. Joy spills in, and an unprecedented awareness, light spills in and fills in the gaps. The mind may still be crazy, it may still be there, but there is only the self in an authentic sense.
“No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.”
Identifying with thoughts are in opposition of the true self. They are the anti-self. We are always having thoughts about ourselves which are not true, they change, from one day to the next, they are discarded constantly by the mind. The mind shakes up thoughts, they whirl around the mind, the mind presents us with constant theories, constant worries or ideas about the way things are.
You have power, means we have power in the self, the self, which is always there, unshakeable and still, and connected to all things that have been, and all things that are. The field of being has power, true power, and when we observe the mind, and become the observer, we give power to the self, truth and authenticity.
“When you can bear your own silence, you are free.”
We are free in our authentic selves, and the truth lies in wait. To bear your own silence is to let go of the mind. To be free, is to be in that authentic space of the self. God is in that silence. God is everywhere, in everything. Not absolutely though, the opposite of that silence, the mind, the chaos, is where god is not. Or is he/she/it?
Perhaps the mind is also a part of God. So not absolutely, but also absolutely. When you can bear your own silence, you are free. To be free of bondage and liberation, is to be truly free. I’m free beyond the concept of liberation, and free beyond the concept of being free.
“Who reminds you to breathe and beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.”
God is everywhere. And also in you. That is why it is good to be in the realm of the heart or the breath. Because, in their consistent consistency, they give us a doorway into the truth, which is beyond all knowing of the mind. It’s nature, but its also nurture.
It’s God, but it’s also the present moment, a space beyond the mind, which is why we can use it as a tool to focus on, and use it to create that doorway to the truth. That consistent space of joy and contentment, where true stillness lives.
“You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.”
Nothingness increases happiness, to let go of all your old attachments; to objects, to things, to ideas, especially to ideas, to the chaos of the mind, increases happiness. To being attached, is to be sad. To have something, especially ideas, better known as thoughts, is to be burdened. That burden is to be sullied by the mind. Remember it is God, but it is also not. To be sad, is not God, it’s not pure joy.
God is inherent in everything, and the mind is like an addition to that. We are sad when we have something, means we are burdened by that very thing which keeps us from a true experience of a higher force. To have something is to be sad, to not have something is to be happy; you need nothing to be happy. In the absence of thought, we are happy.
“When you don’t want to be interesting, you are free.”
The ego really is a persistent evil in that we do not need it. Not that there is any evil in this existence. The ego just is a distraction from the now. The mind is like a devil in that it is not welcome. It helps with survival only. But to want to be interesting, this is a throwaway product of the mind. It is un-necessary.
What is really necessary are those moments of freedom, the constant that is always there, God. That limitless joy which springs up and blossoms and just is. That is true freedom.
“You already are the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that.”
You already are the peace you are looking for. In the stillness you can know that. Mooji is very special because he speaks in very simple terms, circling over the same truths, he speaks, yet he never runs out of words! Many of these quotes cover the same ground, yet they are always fresh.
In stillness, we are at peace, and in the ‘You’ we are at peace. You are looking, your ego is looking, yet you are already there. Being still, focusing on the breath and the heart beat, and we know we are there. The stillness increases, and we can find ourselves in our true joy and beingness.
“Every living being is searching for this! … Rest. Because every time we touch the mind stuff, and person and personality and what kind of person you want to be, you disturb yourself. But we are so accustomed to the disturbance we tolerate it.”
We are so accustomed to disturbance, even though it is not our true being, we put up with it. That is why, when we disturb the mind, it can create chaos for us, at first. The mind swings from one thing to the next, and we tolerate it because it is all we know.
Rest is like peace and joy, we search for it, we desire it, we require it, it is the true nature of being and the true nature of all of us. God. But we ‘touch the mind stuff’ and resist that by trying to be interesting, trying to look a certain way, trying to be a certain person, and we resist the rest. You disturb yourself.
“Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don’t explain. Don’t complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.”
Say thank you to existence, every day, say thank you. Don’t explain, don’t complain, just ignite your prayer with gratitude. ‘I’m everywhere like space’ – Guruji. And being everywhere, the thankfulness increases something in space.
Like a ripple in a lake, gratitude joins the whole, and the space it embodies. Existence becomes you, you become one with existence. By saying thank you, you can increase the moment by being away from the mind, or absent from it.
“Some people are looking for some thing, some object, that when they find it, they say then I’ll be happy, and you know what happiness is? To be content. And you know what contentment is? To be still.”
To be content is to be still, and that is happiness! Mooji’s words pierce the now and help us to experience those moments of joy and stillness. It’s quite a revolutionary concept, that happiness is stillness. And how do we unlock that stillness? By noticing the mind. Mood encourages us in being the observer of the mind, to question it, and ultimately move beyond it.
Mooji truly is a special light in these current times, and we are truly grateful to him for shining his light. His words transform us, and glow in the hearts of all who hear him speak. He has been shining that light and his words will continue to do so for many years to come.
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7 Divine Archetypes to Review the Psyche
The archetype is that which erupts from the Collective Unconscious and pokes through the veil to become and transform action and intentions in this world. It can be seen as the many facets of the same divine source, that which changes and morphs, but through which meaning can become concrete and recognised as divine truth.
Like moments of leadership, I have included mainly those which are divine/and/or spiritual, rather than psychological in how they relate to the human or hero’s journey. I have included just one shadow archetype, for those who love the dark side. My main interest as far as archetypes go, is how they manifest themselves through being a pinnacle of the Collective Unconsciousness, as Carl Jung puts it:
“A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche.” ~ Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.
So we find archetypes manifest themselves through individuals much better than through groups, although of course we have groups of rebels, and peacemakers for example.
Here are 7 ‘Divine’ Archetypes to Review the Psyche:
The Divine Mother
Lets face it, the Divine Mother is the most important facet of the Mother archetype. Modern gurus and saints like Amma and Mother Teresa embody the Divine Mother archetype.
She is compassionately divine, her rivers of compassion flow through and encompass all of their actions, and they embody the divine feminine to limitless heights. She is able to melt karma with her word, and burn through ego with her gaze. Being in her presence will speed up your awakening, and she may only incarnate in a (normal) mother momentarily; from time to time, when the child in her care needs healing.
Of course, she extends her healing mothering abilities to all; the sick and needy, those who are merely questioning, those who are doubting, those who are in deep suffering, and those who are in mortal peril. All of those who cross her path deserve her healing abilities, and her touch has qualities of the divine.
The Divine Child is attracted to her, and she famously mothers him or her, as Mother Mary did to Jesus. During meditation you can connect to the Divine Mother; the lotus can be a way to find that vibration, she is in the blossoming moments of meditation and the awakening of the divine self, she can be found in the rivers and streams, the leaves and branches, the mountains, the blossom flowers, the grasses and grains.
As far as crystals are concerned, she is the rose quartz, and you can download this energy from the heavens. That colour in the spectrum is the Divine Mother herself, and she welcomes you with a loving smile. She is inherent in loving kindness, in the womb and earth.
A ritual to connect with the divine mother
On your altar compile a rose quartz, clear quartz, lavender, goddess imagery/statues, prayer beads, flower petals, womb representations and circle imagery. Burn some incense, and visualize journeying to the centre of the earth. What message does the earth have for you? Travel to the jungle or the mountains, find a place on the earth which calls to you and say a prayer for her.
Visualize journeying up to the clouds, and connect to the pale pink light. See the Divine Mother waiting for you there, does she have a message for you? Bow to her and receive. Remember to offer her something from your altar and she will give you her blessings.
The Divine Child
The Divine Child moves mountains and takes all the knowing and learning and realising from past lives, and becomes a new incarnation. We can be Divine children from incarnation to incarnation, and when a divine child is ready, they are born into the lifetime where they will achieve Nirvana, or become enlightened.
Divine children are often crystal or rainbow children, and many have special powers. Bending spoons, transforming water, and telekinesis are just a selection of the powers just a few possess.
The Rebel
Rebels, like visionaries, wish to find a better version of the world. They rebel against anything, and can often be the first stage of the Divine Child. Better known as Activists, they find a peaceful and polite way of communicating with those who use force to reinforce their ideals, and become active in negotiating with them in order to make changes in the world.
Some famous examples of being an activist are such things as refusing to do something like not be educated or eat or drink (not advisable, do not do at home), to extremism, which I won’t write about here!
Rebels are quite often violent, but they don’t have to be, and should instead maintain peace and balance at all times. The cleverest of rebels are polite, perform peaceful protests, and seek to comply to a certain degree to more fully step into the world of peace-making and becoming a visionary.
The Holy Witness
The Holy Witness is an incredible part of one’s healing journey and embodies the need to have a witness at critical passages in your life. Like the saint or the knight, the Holy Witness can be like a guru as a witness to another’s spiritual journey. But being a holy Witness does not have to be lofty and saintly. it can be commonplace.
Being the witness to another’s life includes family and friends. Those contracts we have set up with others before this incarnation, which of course is Holy, because we are witnessing divine events or urges of the soul; God at work as he/she/it flows through every action and decision.
We witness each other’s deepest suffering, and so we will be each other’s richest companions. To be a witness to someone’s life journey can be most beautiful in the mother, the spouse, the father, the friends, or the child.
“Jung speaks of God continually incarnating through the Holy Ghost in the world of time and space, in the conflict and coming together in all.” ~ Larry Gates
Being a Holy Witness to another is a sacred journey. In the case of the spouse, this divine union can be tumultuous, or it can be blissful. It can be both. I bow to you, can be a good prayer to help the divine flow of marriage, and the twists and turns of a life together, a divine force.
Mother and father relationships to the child are also divine flow, in being a Holy Witness to a child growing and learning, or even the child as a Holy Witness to the parent learning how to love unconditionally, and getting it wrong or right is an honour. The friend or the mentor are divine witnesses also, a person to laugh and cry together. The holy witness can also be Christian in meaning, and something ethereal.
A prayer for a holy witness
Thank you for your presence in my life. Thank you for being you, and for bearing witness to my experiences. Thank you for being here with me on this journey. You are my Holy Witness.
The Shapeshifter
“In Jungian psychology the Shapeshifter archetype refers to the animas and the anima. The animas refers to the male element of the female unconscious, and the anima the female element of the male unconscious.” ~ Amanda Read
The only shadow archetype I have included here, Shapeshifter archetypes symbolise the shifting of ambitions or desires, which are inherent in all of us. The facets of all the archetypes, arise from the collective (un)consciousness, and the shapeshifter represents those who have conflicting facets.
They may be associated with narcissism, although I prefer to see narcissism as the wounded child crying out in pain. Shapeshifters have two or more personas, which symbolise the shifting of desires on the divine journey. They may be a rebel, but also very sociable.
They may harbour secrets and border on sociopathy. They may be vain, like the vampire, or sociable like the werewolf. They can also be associated with the jester, masters of verbal irony and sarcasm, they might embody spontaneity and a zest for life. More psychological in the approach to the shapeshifter, it can represent secrets and the shadow self on the spectrum of the divine journey. They can represent uncertainty, when we are more connected to the below than the above and the path is unclear. When we are lost, and we don’t know where to turn.
The Shapeshifter also connects us to the animal part of us. A deep connection to the earth, the darker part, where snouts and hooves are rife, and the hair of the beast is where animal magic teaches us something, like portents, or messages from the early world.
The Visionary
The Visionary sees ahead of the current world and transforms current problems into solutions. They can see a solution to all current world problems, using both the past, and the future, or alternate worlds to solve those problems.
They are multidimensional, and can see into several worlds at once. Aligning with those alternate worlds, they use what is going on in them, including those worlds which are heavens, and find solutions or simply become prophets to and for this world.
Visionary archetypes come through politicians, diplomats and ambassadors. If an archetype is a pinnacle, or a facet of the collective conscious, it comes through at the right time, and is carefully selected – no, chaotically pushed up – through the veil of the collective conscious and into our inner knowing.
On public platforms, through environmental activism, the politician becomes the visionary, and speaks to the masses. Those who speak stir up the rebellious nature of the crowd to then implement those changes needed to realise the vision through peace treaties and reforming bills.
The Peacemaker
Peacemakers are committed to finding a way from conflict to resolution. They use various methods to do this including non-violent communication. This includes honouring observations, feelings, needs and requests.
Peacemakers are known throughout history as having ended wars and moments of extreme conflict. The United Nations is full of peacemakers; its purpose is to maintain peace and security. From a divine journey perspective, the peacemaker is wise and intelligent. They use negotiation in a peaceful and productive way to make progress.
The Prophet
The Prophet archetype is a messenger of the divine, who speaks of events or occurrences which will happen or have happened, and interpret them into pure love. The Prophet is often a surprise to the masses, and they speak of ways to live in the present moment, or how to love one another better.
They can also be activists and rebels, peacemakers and visionaries. They can also be used as warnings, causing alarm bells to go off in the masses if they’re not listened to. They can be the Cassandra’s of this world, and speak of war, environmental fears, and imminent disasters.
Whatever archetype you most relate to, You may just be inspired by the list I compiled, or you may know someone who fits one or more of these descriptions. Whatever you’ve discovered, I think you can agree they speak to The Whole.
And they really do speak to The Whole/the Collective Unconscious, those ripples of inner knowing which speak to the connection between us, and those moments where the archetype comes through us and speaks to our hearts and souls.
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