Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

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

— Shunya

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Shunya

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Shunya

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

231. “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

232. “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

233. “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

234. “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.”

— Shunya

235. “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.”

— Shunya

236. “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.”

— Shunya

237. “Haters turn your followers into worshippers.”

— Shunya

238. “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.”

— Shunya

239. “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.”

— Shunya

240. “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.”

— Shunya

241. “If you can keep acting normal before your family, friends and society, your sorrow has not yet breached your limits, it is not intense enough to transform you.”

— Shunya

242. “Be someone who has nothing. Then everything you have will feel like a luxurious gift. Even better, be someone who doesn’t even have a body. Then every touch and every visual offered by the body will feel heavenly.”

— Shunya

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

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244. “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

245. “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

246. “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

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

— Shunya

248. “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

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

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250. “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