Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “Whatever happened in the past brought you to this point in life. If you are sad at this point, you will say, “It happened for bad.” If you are happy at this point, you will say, “It happened for good.”

— Shunya

253. “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

254. “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

255. “Haters turn your followers into worshippers.”

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256. “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

257. “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

258. “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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259. “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

260. “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.”

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

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262. “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

263. “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.”

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264. “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.”

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265. “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.”

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266. “Suppose you believe in the theory that this universe is just energy. All people, objects and thoughts are just different forms and frequencies of energy. Ok. But then this whole theory itself is just energy. It helped you to unhook from everything. Now why don’t you unhook from this theory too? Most seekers don’t unhook from the last hook and their mind becomes twisted.”

— Shunya

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

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268. “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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269. “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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270. “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

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

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272. “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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273. “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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274. “If Goddess appears before you, what will you do? Your body-mind might do something, not you. You will discover that you are nothingness. You don’t do anything. You remain in the eternal state of being.”

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

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

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278. “All things are incomplete. They are in search of completeness. While you are in company of a person or a book or your favourite food, be aware of the experience inside you. Because the search of completeness ends inside, not outside.”

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279. “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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280. “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

281. “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.”

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282. “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.”

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283. “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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284. “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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285. “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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286. “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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287. “Rules of Karma can’t be written. The rules written and imposed by society are just thoughts of influential people. Their thoughts can suppress or oppress you just as your own thoughts can depress you.”

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288. “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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289. “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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290. “Understand the difference between mystical art and mystical knowldge. Devotional music, life stories of mystics and gods, images, paintings etc. may temporarily transport you to mystical world but they can’t give you mystical powers. Art is beautiful. Knowledge is boring. Ancient sages tried to mix art with knowledge. We discarded the knowledge but kept the art.”

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

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292. “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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293. “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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294. “Life designed by human society is like a TV serial full of drama and tension. Peace, prosperity, justice, equality, health – These are just empty slogans flying around since the beginning. Society has no interest in these things. Society is interested in the drama and new episodes that get created when characters pursue these things.”

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295. “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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296. “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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297. “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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298. “Forget awakening of soul, majority of people first need to open windows of their head: Learn a language other than your own, stay at a place where people don’t speak your language, try to understand those who have completely opposite point of view than yours.”

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299. “When politicians misuse their position, we call it corruption. It’s a bad word. When other celebrities misuse their position and lie about products, we call it sponsoring. It’s a nice and fancy word. That means human mind can be conditioned to believe anything as good or bad.”

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

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