Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Shunya

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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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255. “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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256. “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

257. “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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258. “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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259. “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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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. “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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262. “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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263. “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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264. “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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265. “This morning, did you wake up in the same body in which you slept last night? Maybe you slept in the body of Ram and woke up in the body of Shyam. Now you think you are Shyam because you have taken up memories and everything that belongs to Shyam. Maybe you take a new body everyday. Rejoice! It’s a new day and a new life!”

— Shunya

266. “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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267. “On the path of devotion, the relationship between the devotee and deity is personal and unique. Your father’s Hanuman can be different from your Hanuman. Maybe his Hanuman doesn’t allow him to cut nails on Tuesday, your Hanuman might allow. The devotee assigns characteristics to the deity out of love. There are as many deities as there are devotees.”

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268. “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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269. “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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270. “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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271. “Life is a game. And like every game, it has to have some rules and restrictions and customs. But they are supposed to make the game interesting, not tiresome.”

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272. “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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273. “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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274. “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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275. “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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276. “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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277. “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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278. “The supreme knowledge is fatal. It kills your ego. Ego loves ancient books because it has developed immunity against them.”

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

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280. “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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281. “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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282. “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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283. “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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284. “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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285. “When a fruit becomes ripe and separates from the tree, that is a proper ending of relationship. But human relationships rarely have such ending. That’s why there is always an urge to re-start the relationship, just to have a proper ending.”

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286. “You want to spend your day like an emperor and then sleep deeply like a labourer. That’s not possible in this world of dualities. Here definition of pleasure is relief from pain. Eternal bliss is found when you detach from both.”

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287. “We relate to the unknown in two ways: fear and attraction. Both fear and attraction go away when unknown becomes known.”

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288. “If you are allowing someone to lift you up with praise and compliments, you are giving them power to throw you down with blame and insults.”

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289. “Only your conscious being is eternally yours. Everything else is bonus. The loss or gain is happening from the bonus.”

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290. “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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291. “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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292. “There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the way it suits you, the way it strengthens your existing beliefs.”

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293. “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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294. “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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295. “In a movie, dialogues take the story forward and background sounds give dramatic effect. So many people are saying so many things in your life. React to only those with whom you want to take your story forward. Regard the rest as background sounds.”

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296. “Leftist, Rightist, Centrist – Let your mind be what it wants to be. Just don’t lose the awareness that you are a soul and you have the freewill to detach from this mind.”

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297. “Lustful people are often very generous. Addicts often have a tender heart. Bad things about you often surround the best thing about you just as thorns surround a rose.”

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298. “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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299. “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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300. “Faith has the power to turn A into B. But there is an important step involved: First A vanishes into nothingness and then B emerges out of it. This step requires you to be free of all worldly knowledge, which is nothing but opinions of human race.”

— Shunya