Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Freewill at the level of mind is an illusion. The options you see, the thoughts you get and the option you choose is all part of hard script. The real freewill is at the soul level and you exercise it only in the moments when your soul is awake.”

— Shunya

352. “Life is a search of completeness. Only the supreme power is complete and whole. Directly or indirectly we search for Him whole life and perish. There is nothing more sacred than perishing in search of Him. So every life is sacred.”

— Shunya

353. “In the village of light, there lived a man. Out of curiosity, he once crossed the village boundary and met the darkness and gave her the offering of dark thoughts and dark deeds. When he returned to his village, the light shamed him for what he did. So he ran back to darkness and did more dark deeds. Since then he is running between light and darkness... wait a minute. The light is also acting as an agent of darkness here.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

355. “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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356. “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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357. “In an environment where I can be me and you can be you, I become a better me and you become a better you. But we are in a mad rush of trying to be like each other, preserving only what is common between us and destroying what is unique about each of us.”

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358. “The essence of religious texts is the knowledge of self. If you remove the essence, what remains is just cultural fluff. Then reading the stories of gods is no better than reading a novel. It is perhaps worse because it keeps you in the illusion that you are religious or spiritual.”

— Shunya

359. “Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.”

— Shunya

360. “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.”

— Shunya

361. “All sorts of people are doing all sorts of things all over the world. They all are right as per their own definition of right and wrong.”

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362. “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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363. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

365. “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.”

— Shunya

366. “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.”

— Shunya

367. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

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

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370. “Treat the entire external world – thoughts, things and people – as a single unit, a single person. Her name is Maya. You, the soul, are in a unique relationship with her. For any happy relationship, space is important. So, leave her alone once in a while. In other words, meditate!”

— Shunya

371. “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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372. “Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations.”

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373. “A young tree was bothered by the fact that a lot of tiny insects were living in its trunk. An old tree advised, “Focus on your larger self – roots, trunk, branches, leaves. The tiny insects will stop bothering you. Don’t let a woodpecker destroy you on the pretext of killing your insects.”

— Shunya

374. “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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375. “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.”

— Shunya

376. “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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377. “The plant of your Desire needs the water of Karma in order to grow and yield fruits. Your limited physical self can only bring water from wells and ponds which might not suit your plant. Only the freewill of your soul can bring abundant rain.”

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378. “You can’t define your duties. You can recognize your duties when they call you. The call comes from deep inside you. It may go against definitions set by mind.”

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379. “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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380. “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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381. “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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382. “I can win over anything because I let my higher self win over me.”

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383. “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.”

— Shunya

384. “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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385. “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.”

— Shunya

386. “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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387. “Every loss creates a void. If you try to fill it, you will fill it with garbage. If you let time fill it, it will be filled with normal stuff. If you don’t let it fill, God will call out to you through it. Then you will begin the journey to find Him.”

— Shunya

388. “When Time makes you choose lesser evil between two evils, choose one but don’t fall for the third evil: Guilt.”

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

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390. “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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391. “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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392. “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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393. “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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394. “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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395. “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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396. “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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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. “First take the responsibility of what is happening to you. Then only you can be powerful enough to change it. Only your inner being can take this responsibility because that is where the DVD of your Karma is playing.”

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400. “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 .”

— Shunya