“Self-inquiry begins by looking to discover whether the personal identity, with all its conditioning and idiosyncrasies, is who we truly are. And it ends as a mirror in which the timeless is reflected.”

—  Mooji

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

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