Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “People trying to impress each other with their philosophies are like teenagers showing off their new clothes. The philosophies are nothing but clothes of mind. The real smartness is in seeking the supreme power, not in trying to impress the waves of dust that is human beings.”

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352. “When someone doesn’t have what you have, their heart fills with admiration and head with envy. Their heart wants them to become closer to you and their head wants them to become like you.”

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353. “The strength of a belief depends on the stories woven around it. Once you have woven enough stories around your belief, even God can’t get you out of it.”

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354. “If you have got used to living life of a king, it would seem ordinary to you. Plus you will get nightmares at the thought of losing it all. If you are used to nothing, even food on your plate and roof on your head will seem like heaven. Everything is relative.”

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355. “While being non-violent to others, don’t start doing violence to your own self. That would be doing the same thing in reverse.”

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356. “The new trend of capturing pics instead of enjoying the experience is not new. Human mind has been doing that for ages. Your mind tries to capture the experience by naming, defining, judging, comparing and categorizing everything. As a result, your soul misses the live dance of colours, sounds, shapes and sensations happening before you.”

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357. “You juggle with so many things as if your life depends on it. Calm down and let go of few things. Don’t fear the disorder because universe will bring a new equilibrium shortly after it.”

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358. “Your roots are spread deep into the unknown. Fearing the unknown means fearing your own roots.”

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359. “Pain multiplies when you try to go away from it. Be with it until it goes away from you.”

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360. “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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361. “Nobody knows who you truly are. From your milkman to your spouse, everyone has a different image of you. You keep accepting, rejecting. correcting and enhancing those images. Even you don’t know who you are. You are searching for yourself.”

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362. “The network of Time and Space is like a huge metro train network. The announcements on this train network are heard directly in our head in a personalized way. A voice in our head tells us who we are, where we are coming from, and where we have to go. It just keeps us moving within this network.”

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363. “Those who act from their heart feel that everyone acts from their hearts. Those who act from their head believe that everyone acts from their heads.”

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364. “Living in the present doesn’t mean rebelling against the warnings coming from future. A moment is truly a present moment only if it is in harmony with the past and future.”

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365. “Information stuffed in our mind is like a floodlight. We dim it only while enjoying dance, music, dance of colours and sounds in nature.”

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366. “She has found the secret: When you stop seeking the artificial entertainment created by thoughts and words, the universe resumes the original entertainment. Birds, stars, clouds etc. come and dance before her and make her feel like the queen of universe.”

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

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368. “Suppose 10 different sculpture artists are thinking about what they are going to sculpt next. If you show them a rough rock, they won’t see rock; they will see what they are thinking of carving from it. Similarly, the universe is just a rough rock. Different souls see different things in it.”

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369. “Like Anesthesia detaches mind from body, supreme knowledge detaches the soul from body-mind.”

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370. “In relationships, we first want to be understood and then we want to be discovered one layer at a time till eternity.”

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371. “Have you heard the sound of knife cutting through apple? Have you felt touch of water when you wash your face? No. Because while doing these things you are already thinking of something in future. To be in the present you have to be fully sensitive to your surrounding. More sensitive you are, closer you are to the eternal bliss.”

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372. “If you’re hurt, get a closure asap. Once pus collects in the wound, scratching it gives more pleasure than healing it.”

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373. “When you love yourself as you are, others start loving you. But to love yourself as you are, first you have to stop craving for love from others.”

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374. “By the time you have described a moment in words, it has passed away. Instead of talking about dead moments, let us birth a new moment in silence.”

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375. “We can forget our headache by self inflicting deeper pain in some other part of body. That is what anger is – A self inflicted pain to numb the hurt caused by others.”

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376. “A, B, C, D... These alphabets are everywhere in a book. But our mind reads whole words and sentences. Similarly, God and godliness is everywhere. Our mind only sees people, animals and things.”

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377. “I can win over anything because I let my higher self win over me.”

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378. “If you are way more successful than your sibling, you will come out as patronizing no matter what you do for them. They feel overshadowed by you. They may make friends who are not good from your perspective. To make them feel equal, you must accept their friend circle. Or just completely separate from them and let them live their life their own way.”

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379. “A homeless beggar is not in pain, His condition remains the same; he has become used to it. You are in pain because your condition is constantly changing. If a neighbour gets better car than yours, your condition has changed!”

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380. “Success is like a high profile person and “Struggle” is her grumpy secretary who doesn’t let you meet her easily. When you befriend “Success”, when you become worthy of her friendship, you can meet her directly.”

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381. “You feel sexual excitement in genitals, horror in stomach, sadness and happiness in heart, physical pain in various parts of the body. What if you start feeling all of this at just one place: In your forehead. Then nothing can hurt you or control you. Even if somebody burns your body, you will feel nothing but a sweet sensation in forehead. It’s possible even in 21st century. Disconnect from this crappy society and seek.”

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382. “Mind is like government. Just as we file tax returns of all our transactions to government, we file return of all our experiences to mind.”

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383. “You are good enough to be the heroes you worship, bad enough to be the villains you despise, and vulnerable enough to be the victims you sympathize with.”

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384. “Feminine energy is manifestation of Time. Whether you are a man or woman, if you have excess of feminine, you will feel that you have all the time in the world; you will become complacent and slow. If you have lack of feminine, you will feel that you don’t have time; you will try to do too many things at the same time.”

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385. “We seek the punchline in a joke, moral in a story, summary in an essay, fragrance in a flower and so on. We seek essence in each and every thing. Why don’t we seek essence of the universe as a whole? That essence is nothingness.”

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386. “Search of truth is actually a search of strength to handle the truth.”

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387. “Children become serious when they play. To regain that beautiful seriousness, you have to live in the present and take life as a play.”

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388. “Someone who is learning driving takes joy in the knowledge of driving. Someone who is on a long drive takes joy in the soulful experience of driving. Don’t remain stuck in the knowledge. You are here for the experience.”

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389. “You may be attached only to your family members but what’s the guarantee that they are not attached to people outside the family? And those outsiders are attached to even more outsiders. This chain of Karmic infection goes on and on. So your fate is linked with an entire beehive. Detach!”

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390. “You feel that your soul is in your character since birth. Your character’s memories make you believe so. A realized soul is not bound to memory of the character. A realized soul feels that it came to the character just now. Everything feels new.”

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391. “When the car is fast, you get excitement but lose control of direction. This fast world is exciting but we’ve lost control of our own life.”

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392. “I forgive you.’ This statement suggests attachment. If you have forgiven someone to close their chapter from your life, you won’t feel the need of saying it to them. They will just stop existing for you.”

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393. “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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394. “A child may burn his lips with hot milk because he is drinking it only for the sugar mixed in it. If you love the hot beverage wholly and fully, it won’t burn you. The heat itself will become a soul-lifting ingredient.”

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395. “When bad experiences are over, when termites have been cleaned out, it is important to fill the holes left by them. Open holes become invitation to red ants. Fill them. Revive your hobbies. Do the things that empower your inner self.”

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396. “When you finally jump out of the pond and see trees for the first time, how would you describe them to your former companions in the pond who have only seen moss till now? Weird large frames covered with moss?”

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397. “Belief systems are just glasses of different shades that we wear on our inner eye.”

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398. “Mind can’t go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.”

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399. “Get high on meditation, not addictions. Try this: Sit calmly, let loose your head and feel your heartbeat. Head will feel like a ball and heartbeat will give a nudge to the ball thereby causing subtle swinging motions to it. You will get high in 5 minutes .”

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400. “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.”

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