Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Shunya

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

213. “If speed limit or fear of mishap were not there to pull you back, driving fast would be a feelingless act. If there were no force to pull you back, you would get no feeling in moving ahead.”

— Shunya

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Shunya

217. “All things are cursed. If you engage with them, they multiply. If you just let them be, they fade into nothingness.”

— Shunya

218. “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

219. “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.”

— Shunya

220. “Haters turn your followers into worshippers.”

— Shunya

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “The difference between a realized Yogi and a spiritual teacher is similar to the difference between a billionaire and a motivational speaker.”

— Shunya

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “Suppose your mind has 1000 files stored about supreme knowledge but your friend’s mind has capacity to store only 10 files. You can’t prove to him that you have 1000 files because you can’t transfer more than 10 files to his mind. That is the problem in interacting with people with lower awareness than you. They hit a dead end beyond which you can’t help them unless they are ready to accept and expand their limit.”

— Shunya

230. “If a black cat crosses your path, don’t move ahead.” This is a fictitious rule but the submissive energy you feel when you follow this rule, and dominating energy you feel when you rebel against it are real. Every tribe and society has such absurd rules because mankind has always taken great interest in creating something real out of unreal.”

— Shunya

231. “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

232. “Transparent children of God, competing with each other to look different, have put on layers and layers of colourful illusions.”

— Shunya

233. “To get godly powers, you must have godly qualities. For human mind, the easiest godly quality to acquire is ‘Infinite Patience’. That means, you should be able to wait infinitely for the results. In other words, you should not expect results, Those who can wait infinitely get it instantly.”

— Shunya

234. “In ancient times, people who didn’t cross the line were called good. The tragedy of our times is that there are too many good people: they conveniently shift the line so there is no need to cross it.”

— Shunya

235. “To detach from someone, just know them fully.”

— Shunya

236. “Mind is like a wild horse that either runs after something or runs away from something. You are not the mind. You are the rider sitting still.”

— Shunya

237. “Cook some interesting experiences with the ingredients you already have in your kitchen. Don’t waste your life searching for missing ingredients of some illusive perfect dish.”

— Shunya

238. “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

239. “We notice our own quality when we see lack of it in someone else. Others work like mirrors for us in various ways.”

— Shunya

240. “Take any physical pain. Even in headache, you can’t think about past or future. You only think of pain which is in present. If Time is a thread on which you are moving, pain is a loop or knot in that thread. Once you get trapped in the loop, you need to do effort to get out,; you need to apply balm or take medicine.”

— Shunya

241. “When you are attached to things and people, you are the only one to take care of them. When you get detached, your identity expands and higher powers manifest through you to take care of them.”

— Shunya

242. “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

243. “Juvenile lover’s mind imagines, “The one I love is in danger. I go and save her. She falls in love with me.” The beginner devotee’s mind imagines, “Some lowlife disrespects my deity. My deity is in danger. I go and fight for my deity. He blesses me.”

— Shunya

244. “Expectations are like tall buildings with no stairs or elevators. People pelt you into high floors but there is no way to come down. You try to keep living there and suffer.”

— Shunya

245. “When you buy a device from market, you get a booklet with it. Entire western science is a booklet for a device called “human”. They assume that we are human. The East has experienced that “human” is just a device we are currently using. We are much more than a human.”

— Shunya

246. “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

247. “There are no exams in playschool. If you are tired of exams and tests life is throwing at you, make your life like a book from playschool: Less words, more pictures. Less conclusions, more stories. Less meaning, more poetry. Less interpretations, more direct experiences.”

— Shunya

248. “What would the doctors do if there were no patients? What would politicians do if there were no social problems? What would humanitarians do if there were no inhumanity? The opposite sides that seem to be fighting each other actually depend on each other, define each other, thrive with each other.”

— Shunya

249. “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

250. “Give and take is the way of the world. But when you give something with compassion and take something with gratitude, you are away from the world and nearer to the supreme power.”

— Shunya