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For over 20 years, American born teacher and author Gangaji has reached thousands around with world with the words of her teacher, H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji) to “call off the search” and to inqu...

"It's in fully seeing it all…that there is this undeniable yes in the core." What is unfolding before our eyes in the world—the violent aggr...

"The real healing of trauma is bringing your love and consciousness to it." In the wake of trauma, fear can take hold — in the body, in memo...

"If you are really, hopelessly lost, instantly you are found." This month's episode addresses that moment on the spiritual path, where all s...

"Can you find a problem when the desire to attain anything is given up?" In our search for happiness and fulfillment on the spiritual path,...

"There is conditioning in our mind streams, but what we are drawn by, what has brought us here, is closer and deeper than any conditioning."...

"The real challenge is to include all, every aspect of yourself. Even the aspect that hates can be loved." When we take a spiritual path, we...

"We have overlooked what was actually innocent and was called stupid. We lost our stupidity and in that we lost our heart. Yet, we are haunt...

"You cannot learn the Self, you cannot learn Consciousness, you cannot learn Love, you cannot learn Trust, but you can learn how you deny th...

"What deepens is the mind's surrender because the mind's whole job has been to never surrender." Even in the midst of uncertain times, we ca...

"The way you can discover directly that your story is an illusion is to try it on as if it were real. The magic trick is exposed in that mom...

"Just as you are right now, present yourself fully, nakedly with all of your imperfections and no hope of cleaning them up. Then see what is...

"I would never suggest that you get rid of the longing. Meet the longing, fall into the longing, and you are laughing, laughing, laughing."...

"I don't have confidence in my personality, but I do have absolute, total confidence in the Truth of who I am. And that is available for you...

"True inquiry is examining all of those places where you have assigned your identity. One of the spiritual identities is the one who is enli...

Papaji said, "It takes one twelfth of a second, and then your life is never the same." Our spiritual search often begins with a causeless mo...

"If you are willing to surrender for a moment any definition of yourself that arises however high or low, you will directly discover what li...

"Universal, limitless consciousness has no problem with feeling bad or feeling good." When we experience challenging emotions or exacting me...

"Thought is a beautiful power that arises in Awareness. If that power is worshipped or if it is hated, then it grows into a tyranny. You are...

"When you're willing to be still…to stop this forward thrust of accumulation, of a lifestyle, you can give your life, the attention of your...

On this Being Yourself Podcast Extra you are invited to "look inward." Take just a few minutes to drop into a brief selection taken from The...

"There is a possibility of meeting the Satguru which is death – the final great teacher of us all. Not as an escape from life, just an openi...

"Regardless of those people who depend on you, it is possible for you to be true to who you are. Compassionately, ruthlessly true to who you...

"The mistake is overlooking what is effortlessly, choicelessly, always here." How is it that we actually overlook the truth of ourselves? Wh...

"The secret of freedom is giving up the choice to escape yourself." A prison inmate's letter inspires this month's podcast. In one of the mo...

At some point in our lives, we will experience a loss of innocence. Whether that disillusionment is with ourselves, our family, or with life...

"You are free to discover yourself as Truth. You are free to rest in that Truth. You are free to be happy, regardless of your body, your tho...

"There is no problem with pain. There is pain. If you are seeking something to avoid pain, that's the suffering. That's the search that must...

"If you stop thinking about how to get out of the body that may be painful or how to keep the body that is pain free, you get to experience...

Where is the life you want? As much as we can fear death, we can also fear living a full and vibrant life. In this exchange, Gangaji helps a...

"The strategies and avoidance around the experience of "not being" or death are what keep you from the experience of eternal life." As a you...

"It was a fire. It was really a fire because it was a razor's edge. All of sudden there are these huge groups. And if I identified even the...

Gangaji speaks about the role spiritual practice plays in our lives and invites us to discover what we are practicing when we "get off our c...

"It's a lie that any thing gives you fulfilling, true, deep joy. Joy is your nature." We can feel deeply conflicted when following our heart...

"Universal, absolute awareness is who you are." How is it possible to be "certain" of who we are? In the wake of an essential and undeniable...

"The error is that you are not what can be thought, or perceived, or felt. You are that in which all thoughts, all perceptions, all feelings...

"Incarcerated for life in a maximum security prison in Alabama and not using that as an excuse, refusing to use that as an excuse. In fact,...

"This is not psychotherapy. This is not anti-psychotherapy. This has nothing to do with fixing you. This has to do with discovering fully an...

"This is an invitation to stop. To not create who you are. To simply be yourself with no idea or memory of who or what that is. Just to be....

"When you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that you are this stillness, that you are this awareness, then it doesn't matter what is on the...

"To be nothing, to be nobody, is to realize who you are." This month on Being Yourself, we share one the first meetings Gangaji held in Byro...

Discovering the truth of who you are doesn't require a certificate of realization. You don't need to understand Sanskrit or Advaita to know...

This month on Being Yourself , we return to the summer of 1993 in Boulder, Colorado. Gangaji speaks about the opportunity to break the tranc...

A timeless message from Gangaji as we begin a new year. Plus an invitation to join her for an upcoming online gathering on Saturday, January...

"For our purpose, which is the purpose of discovering the truth of who one is, let us forget why one is and discover who." We often are seek...

This month we are happy to share a selection from Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen's new album Feast of Losses . Their new album takes a deep dive...

"If your attention is on the story of how you do not deserve what is being offered, this is the continuation of self-denial. There is an ope...

Repeatedly telling the story of "not good enough" is a familiar habit to most of us, an aspect of our human conditioning. But what does it h...

"To play the role of yourself, which is the transcendent role, the role of freedom, you have to trust something unknowable." The themes of b...

We have been blessed to hear Aea Luz sing at Gangaji's retreats. Now, we are happy to share her beautiful voice with you. This podcast extra...

A key strategy for our human survival is to "be special." If we stand out in some way, get noticed by others, we may find ourselves better p...