Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “There is an emptiness inside us. If we look at it from outside, we feel painful loneliness. If we sit inside that emptiness and look outside, we experience blissful solitude.”

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254. “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.”

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255. “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.”

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256. “Jaggery powder comes from the soil, not from supermarket. Connect to the source.”

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257. “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.”

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258. “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.”

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259. “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.”

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260. “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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261. “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.”

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262. “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.”

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263. “After a point you have to lose your ideas about gods to meet real gods, you have to lose spiritual knowledge to find the soul, you have to lose everything that can be lost to find that which can’t be lost.”

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264. “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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265. “Energy makes your body active but too much energy gets stored as fat and makes you inactive. It’s true for all type of energies in your life. Let things go, let things come, let there be a healthy flow.”

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266. “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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267. “Let your goal be no less than becoming complete. Let your ego perish in pursuit of this goal so that you can recognize your eternal self which is already complete.”

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268. “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.”

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269. “Your body is like a tiny train coach. Eyes are its windows. All the people are coaches of the same train which is moving on curved tracks of Time. Curves are so complicated that the same train appears like many trains racing with each other. That is the illusion of Space and Time.”

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270. “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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271. “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.”

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272. “Accept my gratitude, dear God. Now that I have reached my true home, I realize why you didn’t let me build the homes I tried to build on the path itself.”

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

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274. “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.”

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

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277. “Like a 3D movie fills you with wonder, ordinary things fill you with wonder when you imagine them rising from a 2D drawing, or better, from 0D or nothingness.”

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278. “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.”

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279. “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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280. “Spiritual growth is like physical growth in reverse: First you ask this and that from God like a child. When you grow spiritually, you feel like you are again in the womb... in the womb of the universe. Everything is provided without asking.”

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281. “A beggar is sad because his alms collection is lower than usual. An emperor is sad because his tax collection is lower than usual. You are on a circular ladder. There is always a lower and higher.”

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282. “When you expect reward and don’t get it, it feels like punishment. When you expect love and don’t get it, it feels like hate. With expectations we create opposite of what we expect.”

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283. “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.”

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284. “Yes, it’s frustrating to not being able to reach a conclusion. But it’s devastating to reach a wrong conclusion. Have patience.”

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285. “When babies fall asleep at one place but wake up at another place, they don’t even feel surprised. They know that their mother must have shifted them during sleep. If something similar happens to you, you will freak out. This attachment to the body and the surroundings is the reason your higher self is not able to shift you to better scenes in life.”

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286. “Desires are currency notes. If you have a new crispy note and a soiled note, you will first try to spend the soiled note. Desire to find the supreme truth is the most crispy note. You are saving it for last. Even amongst soiled notes, you are first trying most soiled: You first try broken partners before settling for marriage material, you try painful jobs before settling for your passion, you try wrong Gurus and books before settling for the one that you need.”

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287. “You can’t selectively clean bad things from the past. Entire past – good and bad both – gets cleaned at once in the shower of divine love or supreme knowledge.”

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288. “If two people can be in silence without any thoughts, it is the highest form of union. It makes you experience the divine oneness. You realize that the same power is looking through your eyes and your lover’s eyes at the same time.”

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289. “From your birth, they started feeding you the idea that the universe has only 3 dimensions and limited resources for which you have to fight with each other. If you detach from this idea and spend some time with yourself, you will realize that there are hidden dimensions from which a soul can manifest anything for itself.”

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290. “The supreme knowledge is fatal. It kills your ego. Ego loves ancient books because it has developed immunity against them.”

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291. “God means absolute freedom. He can’t forcefully take you away from your problems.”

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292. “When we like something too much, a part of us wants to keep them forever in our ‘wishlist’ because we know that when wishes comes true, they lose their charm.”

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293. “Dear God, this endless cosmos is filled with dust and darkness. Thank you for creating this little corner for me. Thank you for arranging this little magic show of love and light.”

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294. “Aware souls start seeing number patterns like 11:11, 12:21 that work as a reminder: Stop taking this illusion seriously, you’re a soul, not body-mind.”

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295. “Eternity is the costliest thing in the universe. You have to give yourself to get it. No discount. If you keep even a little bit of yourself with you, you won’t get it.”

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296. “I like this, I dislike that. He is good, she is evil.′ This black and white approach towards life gives us very low quality experiences. To make up for the quality, we run after quantity. We seek more and more dramas everywhere be it home, office, road, TV, news media.”

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297. “Arjuna quotes old scriptures to support his conclusions and his “I’. Krishna had to say Geeta to dissolve his “I” so that he could just be an instrument. Now people quote Geeta to support their conclusions and their “I”.”

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298. “For society, you are not even a human; you are just a trained manpower. For them, you can “Rest in Peace” only after death. That too is a lie. To discover the eternal peace inside you, you have to walk alone.”

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299. “When surrender happens, the universe itself becomes your Guru and starts walking you to your blissful home.”

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300. “A cave is formed naturally by interplay of the five elements, and your house is man-made. But what is man? Nothing but an interplay of five elements. Even the thoughts that you consider your own are nothing but fireplay happening in your mind. When you realize this truth, your house will also feel like a cave and your life will become a meditation.”

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