Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Shunya

102. “Your life is a garden created in the middle of a jungle. You have voluntarily taken the role of gardener and all the frustration, happiness worries, hopes etc. that come with it. You can accept it as a jungle anytime and go back to the role of a tourist on jungle safari.”

— Shunya

103. “You are a golden bird inside a wooden cage. Red roses will only fill your cage with fragrance for a while. Red hot embers will burn your cage and set you free forever.”

— Shunya

104. “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.”

— Shunya

105. “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.”

— Shunya

106. “The universe is like a dense forest, full of mysteries. Human beings have cut a small plot inside it. The ‘knowldge’ you got from home, school, college and society keeps you engaged within this plot. It doesn’t let you wonder what lies beyond the plot.”

— Shunya

107. “A rich man exploits the poor and then donates some money to a temple. Then temple helps the poor. These are circles of life. If you try to break them, you will end up becoming a part of them. Have compassion for everyone involved in the circles, including yourself. This is the only way to be free from them.”

— Shunya

108. “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.”

— Shunya

109. “If the creation is a joke told by God, human thoughts are like explanation of that joke. Explanation ruins the whole joke.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

111. “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.”

— Shunya

112. “If your past self seems insane in the eyes of your present self, and your present self seems insane in the eyes of others, you are growing spiritually.”

— Shunya

113. “The whole world is a family.” It has become a moralistic phrase. Ancient Indian sages had designed it as a powerful thought experiment: Imagine that whole world is a small family. That family is living alone, surrounded by infinite dark space in which countless planets and suns and galaxies are floating.”

— Shunya

114. “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.”

— Shunya

115. “Love is when you see a person as a person.”

— Shunya

116. “Farmer owns the cow or cow owns the farmer? It depends from whose perspective you see it. There is no one-way street here. Ownership is an illusion created by ego. Things you own own you. People you control control you.”

— Shunya

117. “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.”

— Shunya

118. “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.”

— Shunya

119. “Your sorrows and pain are like a hot desert in a summer afternoon. When the night falls and moon rises, same desert turns into an unparalleled beauty. Let the moon of awareness rise in your life.”

— Shunya

120. “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

121. “If you can imagine a scene, it exists out there in Space-Time. Whether you get to live it or not is another matter.”

— Shunya

122. “Independence is scary. So we either make others dependent on us or become dependent on others.”

— Shunya

123. “Your eyes are like two small glass windows. Who is sitting inside and looking through them?”

— Shunya

124. “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.”

— Shunya

125. “Pencil breaks when you sharpen it fully. A student who wants to write only after fully sharpening the pencil will never be able to write. He will waste whole pencil in sharpening.”

— Shunya

126. “The outer world is not that tempting. It’s all garbage. But we keep nosing through it to avoid facing the demons sitting inside our head.”

— Shunya

127. “Silence is the background music that you can play anywhere and make any ambience your own.”

— Shunya

128. “We become mirror image of those whom we blindly oppose. And we don’t even realize it.”

— Shunya

129. “In a way, this is the best time to live for a seeker. If you remain honest with yourself, you can’t take side of any ideology. Everything has become so twisted. This is the best time to discover nothingness.”

— Shunya

130. “It is dangerous to turn a fast car. Slow down so that the universe can turn you towards the right direction.”

— Shunya

131. “Mind is like a wild horse that either runs after something or runs away from something. You are not the mind. You are the rider sitting still.”

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132. “Be it a happy song or a sad song, you don’t think about its end while listening to it. Inner journey is like a song. Yes, it will end. But if you are thinking about the end, you haven’t tuned into the song yet.”

— Shunya

133. “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

134. “Sensuality alone is just raw electricity in the body. If channelized through heart, it takes form of love. Otherwise it leaks out as lust and perversion.”

— Shunya

135. “Spirituality is not about changing who you are. It’s about discovering who you are.”

— Shunya

136. “To be yourself, you have to be behind closed doors. Outside you are just playing different roles. It’s ironic that to free yourself from the prison of society, you have to lock yourself inside a room.”

— Shunya

137. “Success is like an immature lover. It promises you stars and moon and what not. When you finally get it, you just enjoy a brief honeymoon period after which things become the same or maybe get worse.”

— Shunya

138. “You are suffering from yourself. Others are just a symptom.”

— Shunya

139. “You’re not holding opinions; opinions are holding you and stopping you from reaching the truth which is beyond all opinions.”

— Shunya

140. “If you identify yourself as this clay lamp, your soul becomes rooted to one place. If you identify as the flame, your soul can switch through thousands of flames burning all over the world.”

— Shunya

141. “More violence happens in the name of doing good than doing harm. The ego wants to decide what is good for others. It wants to be the saviour. So it starts ‘saving’ fishes from drowning.”

— Shunya

142. “Let go of things just like you let go of your phone at service center. Everything is under universal warranty. The universe can repair or replace anything.”

— Shunya

143. “People don’t have time to be evil. There is pettiness all around but not much evil.”

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144. “Wearing perfume can’t be a substitute for bath. For a seeker, reading famous spiritual books, visiting some holy Gurus and places, doing some chanting and rituals is like wearing perfume. If you wish to take bath, throw yourself to the universe. It will make you do things that are not even remotely spiritual or religious. But they will bathe you clean.”

— Shunya

145. “Whether it’s your relationship with your spouse or Guru or God, trust is the root. It can only be watered by spending silent time together. Talking is like watering the leaves. When trust dries up, everything you say will be misunderstood and all the sweet talks you have had in the past will only cause pain and tears. They can’t build or rebuild trust.”

— Shunya

146. “Nothingness is the source of everything. It is the magical pot from which you can get never ending supply of anything. But everytime you want something from it, you have to lose yourself into it. Then a new version of you will come out of it along with the thing you wanted.”

— Shunya

147. “Even a soft pillow can become a problem if you permanently stitch it around your neck.”

— Shunya

148. “If a past memory is troubling you, don’t try to forget it. Recall it with every minute detail. Recall it again and again. Every time you recall it, your brain replaces it with a more convenient version of it.”

— Shunya

149. “Imagination is our hidden power to see the planes of existence that our eyes can’t see. Use your imagination to disintegrate things into abstract forms and colours... and then watch them reintegrate. Sadly, people have stopped using their imagination and started using substances to have such heavenly experiences.”

— Shunya

150. “The things you hate and fight are shaping your identity. If your enemies are not worthy enough to define you, stop giving them importance. They will fade away and stop existing for you.”

— Shunya