Mooji was born Tony Moo-Young in Port Antonio, Jamaica, in 1954.[4] His mother migrated to the UK as one of the windrush generation when he was one year old. He was raised by his father and his mother’s cousin (who became his father’s lover and had more children).[3] Mooji’s brother Peter went on to become one of Jamaica’s top table tennis players.[4] Mooji’s father died when he was eight, and he was raised by a strict uncle until he moved to London to be with his mother as a teenager.[3]
By age 30, Mooji was working as a street artist supporting his wife and child.[3] In 1985, Mooji’s sister, Cherry Groce, was shot and paralysed during a police raid on her home, sparking the 1985 Brixton riot.[4] In 1987, Mooji had an encounter with a Christian which began his spiritual quest.[5] Mooji continued to work as an art teacher until 1993, when he quit and went traveling in India, and attended the satsangs of the Indian guru Papaji.[4]
He returned to England in 1994 when his son died of pneumonia.[4] He continued to travel to India, each time returning to Brixton, London to sell chai and incense,[4] as well as give away “thoughts for the day” rolled up in straws taken from McDonald’s.[3][4] He became a spiritual teacher in 1999 when a group of spiritual seekers became his students, and began to produce books, CDs, and videos of his teachings.[4] On Tony Moo becoming known as Mooji, Mooji said, “What can I say, except that’s life.” Mooji’s brother Peter said that people had always followed him wherever he went.[4]
“The wise one does not try to control life and is not controlled by life. His heart is full and serene knowing that life takes care of life.” – Mooji
“All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.” – Mooji
“Know within your heart that your life is tailor-made for your awakening.” – Mooji
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“We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.” – Mooji
“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and also go.” – Mooji
“Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don’t bother about knowing how things “should” be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice… notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.” – Mooji
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“Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognize your inner state of completeness and harmony.” – Mooji
“If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really Is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.” – Mooji
“Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this… Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be.” – Mooji
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“Once you are present in the Energy field of Self-discovery, it’s like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.” – Mooji
“Be true to Love. Do not betray Her. Then, on the day that the forest of the mind bursts into flames, you will not run. You will remain silent and still; for this is when Love bears Her sweetest fruit: your untouched Presence.” – Mooji
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“If you wish to find Love, don’t look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.” – Mooji
“Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance of your own pure heart. Keep quiet.” – Mooji
“Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.” – Mooji
“Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being” – Mooji
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“Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.” – Mooji
“No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify with and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.” – Mooji
“You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.” – Mooji
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“There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.” – Mooji
“There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.” – Mooji
“The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in a natural way. Intelligence is there. Emotions can come. Everything can play, but inside there is total serenity and peace. No planning, no strategising, no personal identity is there. Just the space of pure being. It is what we are, but we dream and believe we are not.” – Mooji
“Let the mind come as it wants; just you don’t go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don’t buy.” – Mooji
Don’t try and hit the stop button on your brain, this is a futile exercise…
“The mind is like the wind. You’re trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?” – Mooji
“Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.” – Mooji
And the ultimate conclusion…
“When you can bear your own silence, you are free.” – Mooji
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