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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of freeing oneself from mental constraints and embracing a deeper understanding of one's own mind.
Gangaji's quote highlights the idea that the true self is inherently free and unbound, while the challenges and conflicts we face come from our mental constructs. By releasing both the positive and negative aspects of our thoughts, we can transcend the 'game' of life that often traps us, revealing a deeper sense of freedom that requires significant inner strength and commitment to achieve.
In practice
This quote can inspire a workshop on personal development and mental freedom.
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present.
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.
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.
They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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