Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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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2. “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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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. “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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5. “Sacrifice your ego for inner peace.”

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6. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “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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12. “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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13. “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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14. “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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15. “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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16. “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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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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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20. “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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21. “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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22. “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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23. “Let go of something to gain everything; let go of fraction to gain the whole.”

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

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25. “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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26. “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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27. “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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28. “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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29. “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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30. “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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31. “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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32. “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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33. “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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34. “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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35. “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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36. “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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37. “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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38. “Even if you leave a negative comment on a video, youtube algorithm thinks that you want more such videos in your feed. The universe works in the same way. Don’t engage with the type of things that you don’t want in your life.”

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39. “Those who fit in social constructs are loved and respected in society. Those who don’t fit are labelled destructive. They get love only from Shiva because He knows that there can be no construction without destruction.”

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “To materialize your wish, the universe has to change the things around you. Your body is also one of those things. Drop the idea of ownership over your body and consider it as just another part of the universe. Otherwise either your wish will never materialize or it will materialize in a distorted way.”

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43. “5 Minutes ago you were not the same person as you are now. In the past you were some “other” person. Don’t judge others. Be compassionate to others.”

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44. “Sometimes the universe uses an nasty person to pull you out of your comfort zone and throw you into an opportunity.”

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45. “Life is like photography. At one point we realize that candid photography offers more “Perfect Moments” than stressfully trying to control everything to create such moments.”

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46. “She is blue fire. Wounded men get attracted to her thinking that she is blue ice, perfect to apply on their wounds. When she accepts them after all the pleading, they run away realizing that she is fire.”

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47. “There is a tiger chasing a deer. The tiger is so weak due to starvation that he will certainly die if he didn’t catch this deer. So, tiger and deer both are running to save their lives. You have the power to distract the tiger and stop this chase. Would you exercise your power and let the tiger die of hunger?”

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48. “When you feel secure, you can be the best version of yourself. Insecurity brings out the worst version of you.”

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49. “You are holding a cactus plant in your hand. You are bleeding and cursing the cactus but not letting go of it. Cactus is not hurting you. Your own attachment with the cactus is hurting you.”

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50. “If you are so unique that you don’t fit in any category, you are an unknown mystery to people. And people fear the unknown. As a distraction from fear, they laugh or talk nonsense about you.”

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