Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Those who think a lot don’t talk much. Those who talk a lot don’t think much.”

— Shunya

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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.”

— Shunya

57. “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.”

— Shunya

58. “The universe looks different from different angles. Everyone is right from their perspective. If you say, ‘No. Some are right. Others are wrong, then you are also right. There is no absolute right or wrong. Absolute is just silence of nothingness.”

— Shunya

59. “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.”

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60. “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.”

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61. “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

62. “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.”

— Shunya

63. “Your mind is too focussed on human beings. Observe the patterns, shapes, colours, texture, sounds and sensations around you. Soon you will come out of human identity and realize that you’re not a person but a presence. You’re not something that exists; you’re the existence itself.”

— Shunya

64. “If you have said something wrong, say sorry. But if you have done something wrong, feel sorry. Feeling sorry will telepathically communicate your apology to the other person if they deserve it.”

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65. “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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66. “When you need big and serious help, people who are emotionally close to you won’t be able to help you even if they want to. When you fall in trouble, they will have their own trouble because emotionally close people have an equilibrium of Karma with each other. That means, they and you are travelling in the same bus as far as Karma is concerned. When it breaks down, people who are not very close to you will come to your rescue.”

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67. “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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68. “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.”

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69. “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.”

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70. “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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71. “All routines are boring, be it routine of a rich person or poor. All moments are interesting, be it a moment of a rich person or poor. Live in the moment.”

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72. “A typical human mind remains under control of the external world, Maya, which has a never-ending arsenal of highs-lows, good-bad, right-wrong, love-hate, pleasure-pain, likes-dislikes, pure-impure, spiritual-materialistic, belief-disbelief, rational-irrational, and so on to keep a mind engaged. Therefore, Maya has all the powers to enslave a human mind and control what information the latter receives.”

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73. “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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74. “Mind creates division of dream and reality. To be free from this duality and merge with the one supreme truth, either realize that this so-called reality is also a dream or realize that the dreams are also a reality somewhere.”

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75. “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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76. “Like you trust a doctor to treat you or your loved ones, trust the universe. There are energies that can take care of your things and people better than you can.”

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77. “Medicines don’t come to the wound, only the flies do. We often get attached to people who pleasantly scratch our wounds.”

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

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79. “Trust has to be absolute. If you trust as per convenience, it’s not trust at all. For example, If your flight gets delayed, don’t call it your bad luck. Trust that it’s for your own good.”

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80. “Even the mighty Sun might get depressed if He started comparing Himself with the moon: “People take me for granted and sing praises of the moon.”

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81. “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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82. “Remember the toys that let out a funny sound when you squeeze them? Most people are like that. They don’t know what they’re saying. Some chemicals squeeze their brain and they blurt out words through their mouth or keypad. Don’t get affected by their praise or criticism.”

— Shunya

83. “Painful experiences of the past are carved on your ego. Peel off all layers of your ego and you will find your spotless, pure and shining soul underneath.”

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84. “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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85. “Bananas come in a bunch. So a single banana is the most ignored thing in a fruit shop. Apples come alone. They are liked alone as well as in a group. You were born alone like an apple. You fear being alone because society has programmed you to feel like a banana.”

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86. “Things coming into your sight are coming from nothingness and things going out of your sight are going into nothingness.”

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87. “One step inward is better than a million outward. Your own small lamp can help you more than a thousand external suns when the night is dark.”

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88. “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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89. “You have trapped your soul inside the boundaries set by your mind. Body-mind are just instruments. There are a thousand instruments of same shape and size. Let your soul choose one freely.”

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90. “Learn from waste disposal system of your body. Wasteful people or situations pass through the most sensitive aspect of your life just before they exit forever. Don’t be scared; don’t make a deal with the devil when he is heading towards the exit door.”

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91. “When you wrongly blame a person for your misery, you create a fictitious entity that has no connection with that real person, you create a ghost that will possess you and eat you piece by piece.”

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92. “When you started the journey of this life, you learned your mother tongue so as to communicate with the external world. Even before that you knew a language that you have been using since eternity. It’s your Divine-mother tongue: Silence. Use it to communicate with the divine.”

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93. “You are searching for a crown which is already on your head. But search is necessary. You will look at yourself only after you have looked everywhere else.”

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94. “Oneness has to be realized, not created. Those who try to create oneness in the world end up creating one more group, one more sect, one more division.”

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95. “Your body-mind is like a cup made of clay. If it is filled with feelings – negative, positive, dark, light sweet, sour – close your eyes and drink it. Your soul can drink even poison as though it’s nectar. Everything is blissful at soul level.”

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96. “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.”

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97. “Human beings have a unique ability to turn anything into suffering. Imagine that humans have started flying like birds. Flying has become a status symbol. Living on the ground is considered shameful. There is a mad competition to stay in the sky all the time. People don’t land. They suffer. Counsellors teach how to ease stress of flying. And spiritual Gurus say, “You fools! It’s OK to land and live in peace.”

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

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99. “When milkman knocks at the door, you don’t have to open it. Let him leave the milk at the door. Similarly, you don’t have to react to everything people say or do in your life.”

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100. “When anger, lust etc. knocks at your door, the fighter inside you wants to go with them, the moralist inside you wants to block them, and the alchemist inside you wants to take them in and transform them into higher energy.”

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