Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “We relate to the unknown in two ways: fear and attraction. Both fear and attraction go away when unknown becomes known.”

— Shunya

52. “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.”

— Shunya

53. “Yes, it’s frustrating to not being able to reach a conclusion. But it’s devastating to reach a wrong conclusion. Have patience.”

— Shunya

54. “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.”

— Shunya

55. “Feminine energy is manifestation of Time. Whether you are a man or woman, if you have excess of feminine, you will feel that you have all the time in the world; you will become complacent and slow. If you have lack of feminine, you will feel that you don’t have time; you will try to do too many things at the same time.”

— Shunya

56. “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.”

— Shunya

57. “Your inner self is complete in itself. It doesn’t require anything and yet everything is available to it.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

59. “Enlightenment is death before death, death of everything you are not. And a seeker’s journey is like a soldier climbing a hilltop in the shower of bullets, not like a tourist trekking a hill.”

— Shunya

60. “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.”

— Shunya

61. “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.”

— Shunya

62. “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.”

— Shunya

63. “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.”

— Shunya

64. “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.”

— Shunya

65. “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.”

— Shunya

66. “Detachment from the world means nearness to Shiva. Souls that are attached to both suffer immeasurable pain.”

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67. “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.”

— Shunya

68. “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?”

— Shunya

69. “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’.”

— Shunya

70. “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.”

— Shunya

71. “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.”

— Shunya

72. “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.”

— Shunya

73. “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.”

— Shunya

74. “Lust is like a dark and dead tree. There is no point in fighting with the dead branches. Dig and see if there is any life left in the roots. Attend to the deep-rooted desires that might still be innocent.”

— Shunya

75. “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.”

— Shunya

76. “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.”

— Shunya

77. “Often people say that their intention was right but action was wrong. Having an intention itself is wrong because it makes you the doer of that action. And doer has to bear consequences. Let your body-mind be just an instrument of the supreme.”

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78. “Opposite of love is attachment, not hate. Hate is an explicit form of attachment. Love takes you towards freedom, attachment binds you more and more.”

— Shunya

79. “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?”

— Shunya

80. “Sunrise and sunset are beautiful moments but you can’t hold them. Let things move. There will be more sunrises and sunsets.”

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81. “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.”

— Shunya

82. “If there is darkness in your life, the wheel of Time will turn and bring light again. There is nothing magical about it. Magic happens when you use the phase of darkness to discover your inner light which is permanent, eternal and unaffected by the wheel of Time.”

— Shunya

83. “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.”

— Shunya

84. “Nobody is listening to you. Your dialogue is just a cue for them to say their dialogue, and act their part. If everyone plays their part well, you feel that it’s all real. Be grateful to the bad actors who ruined this illusion for you and turned you inward.”

— Shunya

85. “Your mind is like a runway on airport. It can launch you in the sky so that you can fly to your desired destination. But you have become so attached to the airport that you are using the runway as a road to drive around.”

— Shunya

86. “If you play your role well in whatever script life has given you in the present moment, you will get signed for a better script in the future.”

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87. “Solitude is like a river bank where the truth is waiting for you with a boat.”

— Shunya

88. “Somebody in your family has a problem. You know the exact solution but they are not taking your advice. Discard that solution from your mind immediately. Don’t start applying it on yourself to prove something to them. Medicines meant for someone else can cause severe side effects if you swallow them.”

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89. “A rock sits on the ground while a flower sits on a thin stem a few inches above the ground. Both are stable in their positions. If the flower tries to mimic the stone’s stability and falls on the ground, it will die. You have to find your own stability in life. What is stablility for someone else may cause pain and fear in your life.”

— Shunya

90. “If you want to help a guilt-ridden person, don’t act holy and pure around them. Everyone has a dark side, Be true, Be vulnerable. Be normal. Be human.”

— Shunya

91. “Healthy flow of feminine and masculine energy takes place in a family or society where men stand up for women and women stand up for men. The flow gets contaminated when they try to control and manipulate each other.”

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92. “Every situation is unique. So there can’t be a standard definition of right and wrong. But deep down every soul knows what is right. We use reasoning to avoid our own soul.”

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93. “If you’re tired of the highs and lows of life, there is an ancient formula for attaining the balance. Your passion for things you like should not be higher or lower than your compassion for things you dislike. They should be equal. And you can’t make them equal until you raise your awareness and see things from a higher perspective.”

— Shunya

94. “When you know that you are not in control, everything will feel under control. When you are in the illusion that you are in control, everything will go out of control and you will struggle to maintain your illusion.”

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95. “Parents plant their unfulfilled desires deep into the subconscious mind of their children. It happens in such a subtle and indirect way that children start identifying those desires as their own.”

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96. “The lamp of divine guidance is in your hand. Pour the oil of faith in it. It doesn’t illuminate the whole path at once. It guides you one step at a time.”

— Shunya

97. “All emotions and feelings are tasty if they are drank and digested. They turn nasty because we keep chewing them with the teeth of reasoning and thought.”

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98. “People are constantly seeking drama in their life. If you refuse to be a character in their drama, they cast you in silent role by calling you arrogant.”

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99. “Society is a prison where prisoners are keeping each other hostage.”

— Shunya

100. “Those who accept a situation find a way to get out of it. Those who try to run away from it suffer like a fly trapped inside a net.”

— Shunya