Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Shunya

102. “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.”

— Shunya

103. “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.”

— Shunya

104. “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

105. “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

106. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

108. “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.”

— Shunya

109. “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.”

— Shunya

110. “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

111. “To those who are crawling under the weight of their ego, an egoless person appears small because he flies high in the sky of freedom.”

— Shunya

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Shunya

116. “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.”

— Shunya

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

122. “Jaggery powder comes from the soil, not from supermarket. Connect to the source.”

— Shunya

123. “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

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

— Shunya

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Shunya

128. “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

129. “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

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

— Shunya

131. “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

132. “If somebody has already made up their mind, advising them against it is counter productive. More you oppose, more they defend it and more blind they become about it.”

— Shunya

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Shunya

138. “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

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

— Shunya

140. “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

141. “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

142. “A character can’t get out of a story. But thankfully, you’re not a character. You are just attached to a character.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

145. “If the flowing water is feminine and the shores are the masculine, a river represents the best relationship. The water flows with grace and dignity held securely by the proud shores.”

— Shunya

146. “There is an emptiness inside us. If we look at it from outside, we feel painful loneliness. If we sit inside that emptiness and look outside, we experience blissful solitude.”

— Shunya

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

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148. “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.”

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149. “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

150. “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