Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Good times pass very fast. Bad times pass very slow. When you detach from both good and bad, time doesn’t pass at all. That is Timelessness or Eternal Bliss.”

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2. “Every single human being has a theory about God, soul and life. The ignorant ones are satisfied with their theory, wise ones doubt it and the awakened ones have become free from it.”

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3. “Sadness comes like dark clouds and goes away. It turns into depression if we consider it as a bad thing and become sad that we are sad.”

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4. “Those who have hurt you don’t know that they have hurt themselves. Their pain will be incurable because the only cure will be with you and you will have gone far away from them by the time they get symptoms.”

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5. “Human mind also has teeth and digestive system. Most people use just teeth. They react immediately to everything. They don’t digest. Teeth can only chew things. To extract nutrients, you need to swallow and digest.”

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6. “No matter on which path you are, keep walking. Even wrong paths can lead you to right path if you keep walking. You get stuck when you become a security guard of a path.”

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7. “When two egos clash, they both grow and grow. An endless drama ensues. If one chapter ends, another starts. Only egolessness can defeat ego because when they meet, ego falls into its own traps.”

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8. “Not taking an action is also an action. Not making a choice is also a choice. Body-mind can’t escape from action. But if your action or inaction is guided by the awareness of your soul and silence of your inner self, it will take you out of the mess.”

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9. “Family members are like default wallpapers that come with a computer. We don’t choose them; we just get used to them.”

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10. “Sacrifice your ego for inner peace.”

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11. “You don’t value things that easily come to you. You value things that are hard to get. You keep running after them and complain, “Why are things I desire hard to get?”

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12. “Attachment hurts you, detachment heals you back. At the end of the cycle, you are no longer the same person. This entire cyclic process is love. It evolves you. Attachment alone is not love.”

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13. “Good wins over evil. Then Evil wins over good again. This circle goes on till eternity. Permanent winner is the awakened soul who becomes free from both.”

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14. “If you are allowing someone to lift you up with praise and compliments, you are giving them power to throw you down with blame and insults.”

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15. “Breathing out is as important as breathing in. You have to let go of some things so that their fresh version can enter in your life.”

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16. “Domination and submission can be healthy traits in an environment of trust. But superiority complex in man and inferiority complex in woman forms a toxic circle. One becomes oppressor, the other becomes manipulative. Both harm each other.”

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17. “Everything is not your responsibility. Trees grow in jungle without your help. Birds fly high without your help. Universe takes care of everything.”

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18. “Moving in the right direction is better than arriving at wrong destination. Obstacles are good because they either take our time or change our direction so that we reach the right destination at right time.”

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19. “In spiritual context, ego doesn’t mean just the superiority complex. Those who have inferiority complex have even bigger egos. Ego means strong identification with a particular body-mind which leads to unhealthy comparison with other body-minds.”

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20. “Spiritual knowledge is like a detergent powder. It is added to take out the dirt. It is not supposed to stay inside along with the dirt.”

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21. “When people need a reason to go, they turn the blame on you. When the rain of love turns into arrows of blame, throw away the umbrella and take up the shield.”

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22. “As your soul becomes more and more aware, magical coincidences start happening: Things that happen in your life seem related to thoughts that occur in your mind. Ultimately you realize that you are the creator of your own reality.”

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23. “Every time you feel sad, you become a little silent Now your mind has started associating silence with sadness. Be silent when you are happy. When mind starts associating silence with happiness, going into meditative silence becomes easier.”

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24. “In stress, we consume too much food and information. Opposite is also true. When you consume too much information, you get stressed.”

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25. “Laws of Karma work in unexpected ways. Help someone who doesn’t deserve it. Sometimes a poisonous well may have the pearl you are looking for.”

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26. “Nothing is worth losing your freedom. Nothing can catch hold of you if you value your freedom above everything else.”

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27. “Do this experiment: After reading a message, don’t reply immediately. Wait for 24 hours. The reply would be different from what you would have replied immediately. Maybe you won’t even reply. Words hypnotize us and make us react like a drunkard. Silence dehypnotizes us.”

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28. “The journey you undertake to get your answers is more important than the answers. The journey awakens your soul while readymade answers just pile up in your head.”

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29. “While you are in a dream, everything seems real. If dreams are just a projection of your mind, this world is also a projection of your mind. The people around you are not real. Competing with them is like competing with your own shadow.”

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30. “If you are proud of some things in life, you are also tired of some burdens of life. Pride and burdens go hand in hand. Let go of pride to get rid of burdens.”

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31. “If two types of attachments are pulling you in two opposite direction and you’re not able to decide which way to go, take a break from both attachments. Conflict will automatically resolve. A few months of solitude can save you from lifetime of complications.”

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32. “Let go of something to gain everything; let go of fraction to gain the whole.”

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33. “A healthy discussion can take place only if all sides have respect for each other’s views. Otherwise they just drive each other to their extremes and ultimately explode.”

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34. “The content you consume on TV and internet is food for mind. It is prepared so as to get likes from maximum people. So it is very low on nutrition and very high on sugar and spices.”

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35. “One way to serve people is to let them blame you for their pain. The pain whose source is unknown is most unbearable. So people manufacture a source to reduce that pain.”

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36. “Positivity alone is dangerous. It will keep attracting negative people and circumstances in your life. Discover the neutrality inside you. It will sustain your positivity without attracting outside negativity.”

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37. “We relate to the unknown in two ways: fear and attraction. Both fear and attraction go away when unknown becomes known.”

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38. “The universe means Time and Space. To befriend Time, be patient. To befriend Space, declutter your life and be simple.”

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39. “Mind is like government. Just as we file tax returns of all our transactions to government, we file return of all our experiences to mind.”

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40. “In cricket fielding, if catch comes right in your hand, there is no fun. You enjoy the most when you have to dive to catch the ball. This is what playfulness is all about. Difference between being a servant of someone and surrendering to someone is playfulness. Don’t make things too easy in your relationship with your spouse or children or gods. Keep the playfulness alive.”

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41. “If it’s not in your hand, it doesn’t need to be in your hand. It’s being taken care of in ways that your mind can’t comprehend.”

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42. “After closing a bad chapter in life, allow your soul to heal your old and new wounds. Otherwise the script of next chapter will be the same, only characters will change.”

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43. “Flowers, trees, rocks... All shapes in nature are beautiful. If you don’t resist change and let universe shape your life, it will always be beautiful.”

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44. “If beautiful flowers were edible, you would eat them stale because you would use fresh flowers for decoration and display. Life is like a rare beautiful flower which is edible. We spend most of it in displaying to others.”

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45. “Don’t feel guilty of being angry at your loved ones. That anger is just a state of love. If love is milk, that anger is boiling milk; it kills harmful bacteria.”

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46. “If you believe in magic, things will happen to you in magical way. If you’re logical, things will happen in logical way. Magic and Logic are two modes to play the game of life.”

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47. “Planet Earth is actually a giant spaceship floating through space. And we are onboard this ship! Where has our sense of wonder gone? Why have we become robots?”

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48. “If you want to keep your social circle clean, don’t hesitate to say ‘No’. Those who don’t understand your ‘No’ don’t deserve your ‘Yes’.”

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49. “In 7 years every cell of your body gets replaced by a new cell. There must be a permanent point inside you around which this process is happening, the point of no cell and no-thing. the site of the holiest pilgrimage.”

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50. “Mentally strong people are like a dam on a river. Life keeps on overwhelming them with burdens. If you’re tired of being a dam, just let go! Water will find its way.”

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