Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “A belief is like a hired boat. It takes you through a particular type of life experiences. If it’s taking you towards storms, “Who knows?” should be your Mantra to turn it in the direction of your peaceful center – nothingness.”

— Shunya

452. “Things that are too perfect for us don’t attract us. They are like a slippery floor having no friction at all. We desire some friction... some flaws... something to work upon.”

— Shunya

453. “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.”

— Shunya

454. “Seekers get out of almost all layers of division, duality and two-ness. But their ego keeps them stuck in the duality of human and non-human, living being and non-living being. They can’t see everything as one. They speak big words about soul, gods and scriptures but have no experience of godliness.”

— Shunya

455. “People speak for two reasons, One, they speak to express what is in their mind. Second, and more often, they speak to hide something that silence might otherwise reveal.”

— Shunya

456. “If you trust the universe, you can’t distrust yourself because you are a part of the universe.”

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457. “Like your body breathes air, your mind breathes thoughts. You feel depressed when your mind forgets to fully breathe out. Stretch your mind regularly. Contemplate who you are in this infinite cosmos.”

— Shunya

458. “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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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 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.”

— Shunya

463. “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.”

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464. “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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465. “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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466. “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

467. “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?”

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468. “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.”

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469. “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.”

— Shunya

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

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471. “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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472. “If you’re feeling depressed or anxious, throw away your phone, get out of the room, and lie down on your back under the open sky. Not on a mat. Disappear in grass, collapse on stone or shatter in soil. Withdraw from the human circus and merge back with the universe.”

— Shunya

473. “When you have inferiority complex, people appear to be mocking you about it. Trying to detach from people won’t work. Detach from your own body-mind and identity. It belongs to the universe.”

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474. “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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475. “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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476. “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

477. “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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478. “You say you’re madly in love with me. Yes, I can see the madness but no love. You don’t love me. You’re madly attached to a fantasized version of me that you’ve created in your head. You don’t talk to me. You talk to your fantasies.”

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

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480. “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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481. “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.”

— Shunya

482. “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.”

— Shunya

483. “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.”

— Shunya

484. “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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485. “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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486. “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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487. “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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488. “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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489. “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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490. “I fear the fire of anger you ignite in me. Because once it starts raging, I don’t know what all it will burn.”

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491. “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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492. “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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493. “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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494. “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 .”

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495. “Suppose you identify yourself as a scientist. One day you realize that you have to cross the domain of science to find truth. Will you let go of your identity as a scientist? No. We tend to cling to our identity. We twist the truth to preserve our identity. It’s true for everyone. Someone who identifies himself as a Shiva devotee would rather preserve his identity than merge with Shiva.”

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496. “Your spiritual journey won’t be all nice and flowery. Your inner demons will come to the surface and make you feel terrible before leaving you permanently.”

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497. “Children think that adults know life, uneducated think that educated people know it, poor think that rich know it, subjects think that the rulers know it. The truth is that everyone is equally clueless. Awakened ones know the sweet secret but can’t tell it.”

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498. “There are many religions in society but society itself is the super-religion. It says, “You are a nobody. All your life you have to try and become somebody. You are a pathetic bio-mass. You have no divine existence.” Surprisingly, everybody follows this crazy super-religion.”

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499. “You are not the only occupant of your body-mind. Other bodyless beings often take over your body-mind and do their deeds.”

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500. “If someone is accusing you of being something, either you are that or you are a mirror in which they are seeing their own reflection.”

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