Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Two enemies try to destroy each other so that only one of them remains. Two lovers also want to become one unit. This whole circus is happening because we are trying to ‘create’ oneness instead of trying to realize that we are already one.”

— Shunya

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Shunya

208. “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

209. “If you don’t have a filter in your mind, you will immediately offend those who wear filters and masks. To avoid offending, you will also install a filter and become ‘sane’.”

— Shunya

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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.”

— Shunya

213. “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

214. “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

215. “If somebody has a false belief, you can’t deliver them the truth unless they fully trust in you. More you try to hammer the truth at them, more they will defend and strengthen their false belief.”

— Shunya

216. “People are constantly searching for an external enemy in order to forget their internal conflicts. Don’t oblige them. Stay detached.”

— Shunya

217. “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

218. “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

219. “The core of your inner self is like a pomegranate. When it emains untouched, life remains superficial and unsatisfactory. To open it and deseed it, there has to be one sharp cut, one devastating experience in life. After that you must remain still. You should not run for bandage. You should not try to fill the cut with addictive things. Then the right hands will find you and delicately open you and deseed you. Magical things will come out of you that you never thought were inside you.”

— Shunya

220. “You are a glass of water separated from the blue ocean. Stop looking for blue colour powder. What you are missing is not colour but inner depth.”

— Shunya

221. “Entire internet is a digital copy of the world. Don’t confuse it with the world. Similarly, thoughts and words are just a linguistic copy of the world. Don’t confuse them with the world.”

— Shunya

222. “When water stops flowing from pipe due to airlock, we put a little water from outside to remove air. Gratitude is like that little water. It removes blockages from your path.”

— Shunya

223. “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

224. “The pendulum of your mind is going to the extremes because you are going with it. Leave it alone. It will slow down and ultimately stop. Just remain at the center and watch how it tries to tempt you to get a push.”

— Shunya

225. “The Tick-tock of a clock is very uniform and precise, but there is no music in it. You must add some randomness and chaos to create music in life.”

— Shunya

226. “Your rest is not rest. You are resting so that you can work. You are working so that you can rest. You are caught up in a circle.”

— Shunya

227. “You get the power to fulfill any desire instantly when you let go of all your desires. But you can’t let go of desires by fighting them. They drop automatically as you grow spiritually and know things as they are.”

— Shunya

228. “If a woman who has grown up alone in a far off island gets pregnant, she might think that she has got a fatal disease which is making her stomach swell. Your pain and discomfort is intolerable to you because you don’t know that you are pregnant with a beautiful destiny.”

— Shunya

229. “Human beings are great lawyers. They can find loopholes in any holy book to do they want to do. Conscience has no loopholes. That’s why they always prefer holy books over their conscience.”

— Shunya

230. “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

231. “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

232. “Once you have invested some time and energy on a path, you no longer want to know the right path. You just want assurance that your path is the right path.”

— Shunya

233. “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

234. “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.”

— Shunya

235. “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

236. “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

237. “Human beings are deep asleep. Nature is awake. Go and talk to her. She knows you.”

— Shunya

238. “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

239. “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

240. “In our attempt to make things permanent, we ruin them forever.”

— Shunya

241. “Without seeing a miracle you can’t have faith. Without faith you can’t have miracle. The answer to this paradox is gratitude. Be grateful that you’re alive. It’s a miracle.”

— Shunya

242. “Thoughts are like live bacteria. They keep multiplying inside you so much that fresh thoughts from outside don’t get space to enter. Dead thoughts come out of you along with other bodily impurities. That’s when fresh thoughts manage to enter inside. Don’t feed yourself information while body is cleaning itself.”

— Shunya

243. “I am a soul.” This thought may give relief to beginners. But as you advance on spiritual path, this thought creates a huge problem: Your mind splits into two. One part starts acting like a soul and says “I am a soul.” And the soul remains asleep.”

— Shunya

244. “At one side, there are people who blindly follow everything ancient. Give them poison in an antique bottle, they will drink it. At the other side, there are people who blindly worship everything modern. Even if you give them the nectar of immortality in an antique bottle, they will discard it. Don’t let your prejudices about bottles deprive you of the content inside them.”

— Shunya

245. “People who claim to love you swear that they can die for you, but they won’t let you live in peace.”

— Shunya

246. “If you’re not willing to be pulled out of your existing mental and physical structures, you can’t expect to have anything different from what you have.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

248. “Suppose you have a question. You go to google. You get answer. It triggers another question. And it goes on and on. You start spending entire time on Google. You forget that there are many apps beyond google. It happens to many seekers. They abuse the functionality of questioning. They question everything except the phenomenon of questioning itself.”

— Shunya

249. “All your past Karma get cleaned in just one moment of realization, the realization that you are not the doer. You didn’t do any of it. You just got attached to the doer; you just copied the doer’s Karma on your Pen Drive. The whole data can be cleaned in an instant of realization.”

— Shunya

250. “Don’t grieve at the loss of your most favourite plant. Dig the earth to know why it happened. You may find a hidden treasure there.”

— Shunya