“Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is your individual and collective soul. Love is God. Love is truth. Love is beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.”

In this collection of conversations with Gangaji, the topics of love and gratitude are explored and celebrated as fundamental choices inherent to every moment of one’s life. Gangaji speaks of the tendency of mind to focus on what is “wrong” in our lives, rather than embracing all that there is to be grateful for. This tendency, coupled with strategies of protection and defense against being broken hearted, is the source of our greatest suffering. When there is the desire to serve the truth of love, the truth of freedom, the truth of one’s own heart, then the privilege of one’s life can be recognized. Love can teach you who you are.

“You have the capacity to live a lucid, clear, and authentic life. If for one instant your attention is withdrawn from the physical, mental, or emotional story of your life, you will know yourself as clarity, as spaciousness.”

Have you looked everywhere for fulfillment? In relationships, spirituality, health, self-image? Have you found what matters most? At the very heart of Gangaji’s message is the simple yet radical invitation to stop looking outside yourself for resolution, and simply be willing, just in this moment, to see what is already here. This compilation of crystalline monologues is the encouragement, the support, and the inspiration to finally accept the invitation of your soul’s deepest longing. Beyond any belief about yourself, closer than any joy or sorrow, more immediate than either sickness or health, is the endlessly fulfilling truth of who you are. Welcome in.

“If you are willing to experience the pain of your own self-betrayal, that pain is a divine fire that reveals the power of the choice to suffer. The willingness to be pierced by this arrow is the willingness to be free. It is simply a matter of telling the truth.”

In these monologues and interactions, Gangaji addresses the perception of lost innocence and the desire to return to and reclaim one’s original purity of being. Central to this investigation is the recognition of one’s own self-betrayal. When all addictive mental activity surrounding self-doubt is cut, it ceases to take precedence over the desire to realize oneself. Telling the truth and having the willingness to trust inherent peace leads one into the heart of what cannot be betrayed, what is free. That is who you are.