Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Decades ago, when cars became a thing, people started imagining about flying cars. They never imagined about internet and smartphones. We extrapolate what we already know. If we know about cars, we imagine about flying cars.”

— Shunya

452. “Know yourself and you will know God. Are you a body, a mind, a soul or something else or nothing? Can you be anything you want to be or you are already everything you want to be?”

— Shunya

453. “Every loss creates a void. If you try to fill it, you will fill it with garbage. If you let time fill it, it will be filled with normal stuff. If you don’t let it fill, God will call out to you through it. Then you will begin the journey to find Him.”

— Shunya

454. “You were born as pure gold. Family and social conditioning coated you with iron and magnetized it. Stop attracting the outside scrap and recognize the gold inside you.”

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455. “Imagine you’re floating in dark space. Then you see a shop floating in darkness. You buy a chocolate there and eat. That’s the kind of wonder you should feel while doing the usual day-to-day stuff. Because everything is actually floating in darkness.”

— Shunya

456. “You will get love and respect from others when you stop craving for it.”

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457. “Let your pain be so deep and wide that rivers of good fortune start flowing towards it.”

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458. “An embroidery machine has to do chaotic motions to create beautiful patterns. Chaos in life means that creation of something beautiful is in progress.”

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459. “A glass of water is holding water. But empty glass is not holding emptiness. Neither emptiness is holding the glass. Both are free and yet they are into each other. This is divine love. No attachment, only pure love.”

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460. “Your path can be a mixture of logic and devotion but if logic is more powerful than devotion, it becomes a dangerous cocktail. Then your logic can justify anything as devotional. People taking drugs in the name of Shiva and so on...”

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461. “How satisfying it is to see a chef at work! Adding a bit of this, bit of that! If you do all little things with full awareness, you will also feel like a chef enjoying the process of cooking.”

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462. “When a free lion starts proving himself before the circus lions, he no longer remains free.”

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463. “When you recall a scene from your past, you’re actually seeing your past self as a third person, you are taking an overhead shot of that scene. Yogis can do that with their present and future scenes too.”

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464. “Right now you feel stuck in the web of Time and Space. But when you become free from Time, you will realize that you were never stuck. Because you will become free from past too.”

— Shunya

465. “You’re hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn’t sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You’re the eternity.”

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466. “Gratitude is often mistaken with humility. Gratitude erupts from inside you. You wear humility out of fear of losing things. One technique to experience gratitude is to sleep on the floor and fast. No fear... No insecurity... Pure gratitude for simple things such as food and bed.”

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467. “You’re sewing your tattered clothes with silk threads. What all you will do to avoid being naked, to avoid being you.”

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468. “If you are OK being dishonest, circumstances will squeeze you so much that you will have no other option but to be dishonest. If you are not OK being dishonest, circumstances will allow you to stay honest.”

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469. “Freedom of soul translates into power of body-mind. To free the soul from Karmic burdens, you should first know what is Karma and What is soul? Why does soul record everything body-mind does? Is there a way to stop it from doing so? Is there a way to erase everything it has recorded?”

— Shunya

470. “Are you broken? Good. Now fall apart completely. You will realize that what has fallen apart is not you. It’s just a thin external coating that hides your pure, eternal and ever-shining being.”

— Shunya

471. “A product coming from some other country is valued so much. Sunrays that come to us from a star far away are taken for granted.”

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472. “A person got hit by a car. You didn’t feel the pain because you are not attached to that person. Someone passed a comment on your clothes; You felt pain because you’re attached to your clothes. Attachment causes pain and pleasure.”

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473. “Anything that can kill you can liberate you. An ant can either fall into honey and die, or she can awaken the inner power to walk away from it and become free forever.”

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474. “If you’ve realized that all this is a cosmic drama, you can play a victorious role in it because you have the power of awareness with you.”

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475. “Pride and shame both are clothes. Lions wear no clothes. They are neither proud nor ashamed of who they are. That’s why they look powerful. Pride shows weakness, not strength.”

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476. “You can enjoy freedom only if you can exercise restraint. For example, you’re free to enjoy sweets. But if you don’t restrain yourself, you will soon be diabetic and won’t be free to eat sweets.”

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477. “It is called “Maya” for a reason. It takes more than it gives. You remain stuck in the hope of being equal.”

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478. “God, the world seen through the glasses of my limited understanding no longer interests me. I surrender my questions, my answers, my theories, my opinions, my beliefs. Fill me with awe. Overwhelm me with your wonders.”

— Shunya

479. “Fantasy and daydreams are like internet. They enrich your life but if you’re using them as an escape from painful ‘reality’, they can suck you into a dark spiral path.”

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480. “If a soul is aware of who it is and where it is headed, it is pure.”

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481. “I wish I could communicate with you. But your mind stands like a wall between us. Once I melt this wall with my words, we will communicate in silence for eternity.”

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482. “The universe is dark and infinite. Then how come this little scene happening before me so vibrant with colours, shapes, patterns, sounds, sensations? This childlike wonder will keep you in eternal bliss. On the other hand, human characters and stories will give you highs-lows, pain-pleasure, hope-fear, stress-release and so on.”

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483. “A scientist is more doubtful of his theories than the science teacher who teaches those theories. A Guru is more doubtful of his words than his followers because he knows that everything except silence is a corruption of truth.”

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484. “Some people find God through their lover, the moon. On dark moon, they drink the poison of separation. On full moon, they drink the nectar of meeting. Accepting both sides of life, they reach oneness, the God.”

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485. “Is rainbow real or it’s just a trick of light? Is light real or it’s just a trick of darkness?”

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486. “Breath has two orientations- it either goes in or out. Similarly, your life energy has two orientations – dominating and submissive. It should keep flowing in both orientations. Always trying to be dominating is like trying to keep the breath out. Always trying to be submissive is like trying to keep the breath inside.”

— Shunya

487. “Solitude means dwelling in your uniqueness and originality which can’t be shared with anyone else.”

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488. “Soul is absolutely free. It is so free that it can choose to be someone who is not free.”

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489. “Open eye meditation can give you sudden enlightening experience. Just sit still in nature and stare. You may get sudden realization that your body is not separate from the surrounding.”

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490. “Walk around after a good rain has given nice bath to everything. You may feel like you’re walking inside a movie. You may even get a glimpse of the creator.”

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491. “If there is 50kg load on your head, you can let go of it. But here the question is of letting go of your entire self. If you save even a bit of yourself, the magic won’t happen. Instead you will twist yourself. So many twisted minds and egos out there!”

— Shunya

492. “It happens with the grace of almighty but you have to try with all your might.”

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493. “Love is a spontaneous energy. You can’t forcefully direct it towards someone. Marriage is an odd mixture of love and duty. Many married couples say that love has vanished between them; they are in it only to fulfill duty. But they keep quarrelling. Because love energy doesn’t vanish. It changes its form and becomes bitterness, anger, hate etc.”

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494. “Do things in your own way. Add your own unique signature. Discover what you can do. Know who you are. Then every action becomes a prayer and gives immense satisfaction. On the other hand, trying to prove to others who you are is violence. It can never give you satisfaction.”

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495. “When you see ads again and again, the brand becomes familiar to you. Familiarity makes you think that you know about the content too. Actually we don’t know much about anyone. We just see things and people again and again and become familiar with them. It creates the illusion that we know them.”

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496. “People can’t have an opinion about you. Because you’re nothingness. They have opinion about the body-mind you’re wearing. That’s understandable. If you’re wearing blue and somebody doesn’t like blue, that’s totally fine.”

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497. “Bumps in the road help in awakening the bird sleeping inside the car.”

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498. “Innocence gives you bruises but saves you from fatal wounds. Cunningness saves you from bruises but gives you fatal wounds. Spiritual knowledge takes you from ignorance to innocence.”

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499. “The trap is of Time. As long as you keep running away from the present, you shall remain trapped. Settle down in the present moment. Do what is in your hand in the present moment.”

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500. “People have power over you because you’re trying to prove yourself to them. Make tea and sip. Cook food and eat. Have a nice bath and sound sleep. You are not here to prove anything to anyone. You are the child of the universe .”

— Shunya