Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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.”

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104. “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

105. “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.”

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

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107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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.”

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

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

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113. “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.”

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114. “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

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

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

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

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

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119. “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.”

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

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121. “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.”

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122. “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.”

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123. “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

124. “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.”

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125. “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.”

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

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127. “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.”

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128. “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.”

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129. “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.”

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130. “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

131. “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.”

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132. “You drop your heavy luggage at departure airport and pick it up at your arrival airport. Being possessive about things and people will only deny you entry into flights of life. Trust the higher powers. What is yours will remain yours.”

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133. “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.”

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134. “The God said, “One of the first things you did as a baby was to grab someone’s finger. That is your outward tendency. You can hold things that are outside you but I am inside you. You just have to trust and allow me to hold you.”

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135. “Big elephants get stuck in small pits. Don’t lose your self-confidence when petty problems of life overwhelm you. You’re the big elephant.”

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136. “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

137. “Is this good? Is that bad? Asking these questions show that you want to be ruled and commanded by someone from outside. Ask “who am I?” to start getting guidance from inside you.”

— Shunya

138. “Do this experiment: After reading a message, don’t reply immediately. Wait for 24 hours. The reply would be different from what you would have replied immediately. Maybe you won’t even reply. Words hypnotize us and make us react like a drunkard. Silence dehypnotizes us.”

— Shunya

139. “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.”

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140. “A dentist can work on you only if you remain calmly sitting in the chair. Usually our wish gets fulfilled when we get tired and stop wishing for it. Because that’s when we become calm and allow divine energies to work upon us.”

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141. “When a wound stays too long on your psyche, it becomes an integral part of your identity. Then you want to get rid of the pain but not the wound. Such a wound allows you to play victim and gain sympathy but deprives you of healthy forms of love. It allows you to outrage and feel powerful but deprives you of real power.”

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142. “Dear God, what can I offer you? I brought these flowers, But all plants are yours, so are the flowers. What is mine to give? My eyes have filled with tears. But these eyes are yours, so are the tears. I have nothing to offer except my gratitude.”

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

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144. “If something beautiful is written on a whiteboard, you may never wipe it. Scars on your soul are like random lines scribbled on a whiteboard. They are an invitation to wipe away the past and future and live in eternity. Therefore, scars are sacred.”

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145. “Mind happily consumes information but it resists transformation. The day you allow yourself to be transformed, a Guru will appear before you in visible or invisible form.”

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146. “You dislike some things and want to remove them from the face of the Earth. This is Maya, the Karmic trap. But it turns into Leela, the Karmic play, if you are aware that there is a universal intelligence bigger than your intelligence. The universe has brought those things into existence and the same universe wants you to try and remove those things.”

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147. “Those who love each other bring changes in each other. But intentionally trying to change someone is like violating their body, mind and soul. First accept them as they are. Then let your loving presence bring changes naturally.”

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148. “Suppose that the universe has a battery. If you take out the battery, universe becomes non existent. But then the battery will exist! Both the battery and the universe can’t be non-existent. When one is in existence, the other is in non-existence. This absolute combination is known by many names: Shiva-Shakti, Shunya-Srishti, Pure Feminine-Pure Masculine.”

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149. “You can’t understand Feminine. If you have understood something, it’s Masculine, not Feminine. Feminine is like a chocolate without wrapper. There is nothing to read on it... no MRP, no barcode, no expiry dates. It can only be experienced, not understood.”

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150. “People summon divine energy through love and trust but waste it immediately in hate and doubt. A devotee is someone who slowly cuts this wastage to zero.”

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