Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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’.”

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202. “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

203. “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.”

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204. “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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205. “Universe is like a printer. It can give you a hard copy of anything you believe. Having a hard copy doesn’t mean that your belief is the only truth. There is no point in fighting over beliefs. Print something beautiful with this magical printer.”

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206. “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.”

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207. “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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208. “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.”

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

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210. “There is a circus going around you. If you enjoy it as an audience, you can go to your inner home anytime you want. If you get involved in the act, they will sign you up as a performer for lifetime.”

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211. “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!”

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212. “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.”

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213. “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.”

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214. “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.”

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215. “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.”

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216. “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’.”

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217. “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.”

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218. “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.”

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219. “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.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “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.”

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222. “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.”

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223. “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.”

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224. “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.”

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225. “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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226. “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.”

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227. “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.”

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

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229. “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.”

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230. “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.”

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231. “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.”

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232. “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.”

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233. “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.”

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

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235. “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.”

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

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237. “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.”

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238. “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.”

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239. “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.”

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240. “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.”

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241. “When people stop being the way they were, your mind starts increasing the spices to compensate for the loss of ingredients. Our eyes open only when it’s too late... when ingredients completely disappear and our own spices is all that is left.”

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242. “Stability and security comes in life when you become rooted in your inner self. It’s like establishing your Ashram in your inner space. It works like a divine address where the things meant for you can come or send you invitation.”

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243. “Anything we lose in life gets replaced by a raw energy. Most people just lock this energy in the black box of regret, guilt or some other negative emotion. Release that energy. Let it manifest into something good in your life.”

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244. “You watch cute dog videos today. Tomorrow you discover videos of injured animals. Then you discover videos on animal cruelty. Then you get angry. Then you start seeing cruelty everywhere. News and incidents of cruelty reach you before anyone else. You start going deeper and deeper into an endless spiral.”

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245. “Love and hate are two forms of the same energy. As soon as you close the outlet of love for someone, the outlet of hate opens up. Both outlets have to be closed if you don’t want to deplete your energy on someone.”

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246. “Haters turn your followers into worshippers.”

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247. “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.”

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248. “Love and hate both are attachments. If you love apple and hate orange, life will give you such a hybrid of apple and orange that you will neither be able to eat it nor throw it. So, don’t let your dislikes turn into hate.”

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249. “Stand before a mirror, ignore your reflection and try to see the whole mirror. It’s difficult. God stands before you like a huge mirror but you only see your own reflection, your own tiny world.”

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250. “Your ego lives inside you but she is not you; she is your close cousin. We always react more when a family member is hurt. That’s why you react when your dear cousin Ego gets hurt. Your core self is very secure and untroubled by what people say.”

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