Latest Gangaji Quotes from Interviews

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• I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so.

  Gangaji

  Maturity, People, Interesting

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.

  Gangaji

  Despair, Students, Mortality

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

  Gangaji

  Overcoming, Moments, Fear Of Death

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn't have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life forms, is to be humbled in a deep way that is actually enlivening.

  Gangaji

  Mean, Dying, Care

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• When you are free enough to stop searching for freedom, you recognize that freedom is always here, it's your nature as timeless presence. That doesn't mean the circumstances are always free, of course.

  Gangaji

  Mean, Enough, Timeless

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

  Gangaji

  Enlightenment

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.

  Gangaji

  Powerful, Survival, Invention

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com