Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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. “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

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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.”

— Shunya

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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.”

— 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. “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

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Shunya

172. “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

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

— Shunya

174. “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

175. “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

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

— Shunya

177. “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

178. “Imagine that your nails and hair start growing so fast that you can see them coming out of your body in real-time. The matter is coming and going out of every inch of your body. Like water flows through a bank of river Ganga, five elements are flowing in and out of your body. Why do you identify yourself with the flowing matter? You are the ancient banks.”

— Shunya

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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.”

— Shunya

182. “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.”

— Shunya

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “Revenge is counter-productive. Let them drown in the pool of their bad Karma. Going into their pool just to fight them satisfies your ego but harms your soul.”

— Shunya

187. “Life is a game. And like every game, it has to have some rules and restrictions and customs. But they are supposed to make the game interesting, not tiresome.”

— Shunya

188. “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

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

— Shunya

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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.”

— Shunya

196. “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

197. “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

198. “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

199. “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

200. “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