Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Even a soft pillow can become a problem if you permanently stitch it around your neck.”

— Shunya

152. “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

153. “Voices of head and heart should be independent. If your head sees benefit in someone, don’t let your heart create false liking for that person. And if your heart likes a person, don’t let your mind create false arguments to justify the liking.”

— Shunya

154. “The most favourite food of goats is a plant which has thorns all over it. But they munch on it so softly and artfully that thorns just add to the taste just as heat adds to the taste of coffee. That is the only way to win over duality: Drink life sip by sip, one moment at a time.”

— Shunya

155. “Why are you keeping your fists clenched? Open them. Let what comes come. Let what goes go. You deserve much more than what your fists can hold.”

— Shunya

156. “Hope and fear conspire with each other to keep you running here and there whole life. Trust your inner lamp which shows you what you should be doing in the present. It will get you out of suffering very soon.”

— Shunya

157. “Like dance or music, life should be a balance between chaos and orderliness. Human beings live in misery because they go to extremes; they either impose too much structures on themselves or go full hippie.”

— Shunya

158. “She was a rough stone. She was happy the way she was. Then somebody carved some stone out of her. Now she is neither stone nor statue. She is running after things that can take more stone out of her and give her a sense or hope of completeness.”

— Shunya

159. “Don’t show so much attachment to someone that they start lying to keep your heart.”

— Shunya

160. “Human psychology is that anything you do in a group feels right. People as a group can kill someone and call it religious because it feels right to them. Religion and righteousness are not the same thing. Religion is about going beyond right and wrong and seeing things as they are without any prejudices and judgements.”

— Shunya

161. “The Time gives you subscription packages. If you get fed up of materialistic packages, it gives you spiritual or religious packages. The idea is to keep you hooked to one thing or the other.”

— Shunya

162. “A tree trunk is not a perfect cylindrical or rectangle shape. It’s irregular and it’s beautiful. That’s how life is. Make peace with the mistakes and foolishness of past.”

— Shunya

163. “Desires are like coil springs. When we try to handle them at the mind level, we either suppress them too much or stretch them too much. In both the cases, a lot of stress and negative energy accumulates that harms us.”

— Shunya

164. “Notice the small letter “a”. The typed “a” is different from what you write with pen on paper. This difference doesn’t bother you at all. Mind can adapt to anything. It can even learn to read ‘cow’ as ‘elephant’.”

— Shunya

165. “In a village people were happy eating rice and vegetables. Then somebody started coming every morning to distribute sweets. Now villagers are happy only in the morning when they get sweets. Rest of the time they remain depressed. The sweets of hope and positivity and motivation being distributed everywhere are actually causing anxiety and depression.”

— Shunya

166. “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

167. “Little spice and chillies don’t do any harm. They rather make your dish tastier. When you feel angry or irritated for short term, just think that life is adding some spice and chillies in the dish it’s cooking for you.”

— Shunya

168. “Karma and Desire are the only two building blocks of one’s identity.”

— Shunya

169. “Most of the things people say to you are like forwarded social media messages. Don’t feel hurt or flattered by them. They mean nothing. Even the emotions behind their words are not original.”

— Shunya

170. “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

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

— Shunya

172. “Recklessness comes from ego. Fearlessness comes from letting go.”

— Shunya

173. “First they declare something as evil. Then they criticize it day and night to show themselves in good light. Because being actually good is difficult, weak minds have devised this easy method to feel that they are good.”

— Shunya

174. “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

175. “Being with your own self initially feels like sitting alone in a movie hall. You get scared and run back to the crowd of thoughts. Once you overcome the fear, everything settles down in life by itself.”

— Shunya

176. “You see someone and think, ‘What a perfect life they have.” But that’s your perspective. From their perspective, their life is a mess and someone else’s life is perfect. So everybody is running. What a goddamn circus!”

— Shunya

177. “Suppose a Sun many times brighter than our Sun comes up in the sky. After we get used to its light, it goes away. Then our Sun will feel like moon to us and what we call as “light” will seem like darkness. So light and darkness are relative terms. Darkness is just less light.”

— Shunya

178. “You are iron plated gold, running here and there to save yourself from rust. Stop identifying with the thin layer of iron; you are the gold underneath.”

— Shunya

179. “The airplane of life can fly smoothly in autopilot if you keep in touch with the present. Feverish mind is a sign that some positive or negative event has made you disconnect from the present.”

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180. “Make love to the present and give birth to your own beautiful future. If you make love to the demons of guilt and worries, you will give birth to a problematic future.”

— Shunya

181. “Many seekers start “overdoing” it. They become like a fish that desperately wants to get out of ocean. Calm down. Fish can’t get out of ocean. Ocean is all there is. And you’re the ocean, not a fish.”

— Shunya

182. “The universe is so complete in itself that anything is possible here. Even horses can fly in some realm. Don’t waste your energy in defending and holding onto your beliefs and opinions. Let that energy enrich your experiences instead.”

— Shunya

183. “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

184. “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

185. “When your mind fills with dark clouds of bad temper and the lightening of anger is about to strike, look for the shelter. Don’t run outside towards the target of your anger. The only shelter is inside you where your deity is smiling, where your higher self is shining.”

— Shunya

186. “Memories are in the body-mind and the physical world. The soul is not physical. Maybe your soul came in your body-mind just now. But memories of body-mind are keeping it in the illusion that it is here since the birth of body-mind. Think! This thought experiment can free your soul from past Karma.”

— Shunya

187. “Flow with the universe and there will be bliss. Try to flow with the expectations of people and there will be pain and suffocation. Because you belong to the whole universe, not a few people.”

— Shunya

188. “Pain and pleasure are the same energy inside you. When it flows at a slow rate like sunlight in a morning winter, it’s pleasure. When the flow rate goes beyond a threshold, it’s pain.”

— Shunya

189. “Stitched clothes look nice from outside but stitches remain visible inside. More you do embroidery outside, messier it becomes inside. It is also true about people. More you pretend to be something you’re not, messier your real life becomes.”

— Shunya

190. “Your memories are just a backstory required for you to act out the present scene.”

— Shunya

191. “Leaving footwear outside is not enough. To enter the temple of God, you have to leave yourself outside.”

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192. “Nothingness is the source of everything. But if you want to take an apple out of it, so many other things will come out along with apple: The farmer who produced it, the farm, the seed shop, farmer’s family and ancestors... a whole new universe will come out with apple.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

194. “A man left home in morning with 1 Rupee. He gambled with it and made millions. Then lost them all. He returned home in evening empty handed. His wife is clueless why loss of just 1 Rupee has drowned his husband in so much depression that he is not speaking a word. This is the illusion or Maya.”

— Shunya

195. “Puppets, we are! The mighty puppeteer has thrown us into this part of the world to crawl a bunch of paths of this jungle all our lives.”

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196. “When the highest Chakra opens, you will find yourself sitting on the lotus of nothingness. The entire world will seem like mud upon which the lotus blooms. The mud is neither bad nor good. If you think it’s bad, you are still attached to it; you are still swimming into it. True detachment is the only way to slowly move upward from one Chakra to another.”

— Shunya

197. “If the attempt to get rid of something is leading you towards more darkness, that thing has become your shadow. Just accept it. First it will stop bothering you, then it will stop affecting you, then it will stop existing for you.”

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198. “If you become a king, you will be excited for a few days. Then you will become used to it. A new normal will set in. There will be exciting days, depressing days and mostly normal days. The net joy and sorrow will be same as you have now. Understand this illusion and enjoy the present moment.”

— Shunya

199. “Things are complicated. Don’t judge someone as good or bad. If you have already judged, don’t waste your energy in trying to prove that your judgement is right.”

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200. “Find one thing that holds you in the present moment... one thing that stops the live commentary in your head. It can be anything like sipping hot beverage, taking a shower, watching the waves... That thing is your own meditation technique, your own door to connect with the supreme.”

— Shunya