Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

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

— Shunya

155. “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

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

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

159. “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

160. “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.”

— Shunya

161. “A judging eye can’t see beyond the outfits. When you drop all judgements and the light of awareness shines in you, true nature of everyone gets revealed before you.”

— Shunya

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Shunya

168. “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

169. “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

170. “It’s very painful when circumstances don’t allow you to act as per your nature. It may force you to change your nature. If you keep shame, guilt, regret etc. away, this change can be a transformation of caterpillar into butterfly.”

— Shunya

171. “Awakened ones are like the cool shadow of a tree. Light is harsh because of ego. Shadow has all the qualities of light except the ego. It is compassionate towards darkness also but it never steps into darkness.”

— Shunya

172. “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

173. “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.”

— Shunya

174. “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.”

— Shunya

175. “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.”

— Shunya

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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.”

— Shunya

180. “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.”

— Shunya

181. “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

182. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

184. “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

185. “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.”

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186. “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.”

— Shunya

187. “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.”

— Shunya

188. “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

189. “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.”

— Shunya

190. “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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191. “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

192. “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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193. “Recklessness comes from ego. Fearlessness comes from letting go.”

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194. “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.”

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195. “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

196. “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.”

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “Karma and Desire are the only two building blocks of one’s identity.”

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200. “Any intense relationship, be it of love or hate, displaces you from your body-mind. Everything becomes about that person. When they are gone, you feel lost.”

— Shunya