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“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.”

Thoughts Insights

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“All emotions and feelings are tasty if they are drank and digested. They turn nasty because we keep chewing them with the teeth of reasoning and thought.”

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“Suppose you're about to start playing a game. Somebody comes and says, "You're going to play a game." Then if you play, you're proving them right. If you don't play, you are proving them wrong. It no longer remains your game. It becomes all about them. This is how thoughts tie you down. This is how Maya binds the soul.”

Life Spirituality Buddhism Thoughts Hinduism Vedanta

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“Society was to decide a common currency so that we could use it to buy things as per our unique needs. But now our needs are also being decided by society. Society was to decide a common language so that we could use it to talk about our unique feelings. But now we only talk about agendas and fads set by society.”

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“All processes in nature create waste but nature takes care of the waste too. The thought process is man-made. The waste it creates is like plastic. Religions all over the world have turned human mind into a factory of creating pious thoughts. The waste it creates is immense and dirty. People try to burn it with the fire of hatred, riots, wars and so on... True religion is about discovering the zone of no thought.”

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“There is difference between knowing something and knowing "about" something. To know tea, you have to drink it. To know "about" it, you can google information and write essays or books on it. Tragedy is that most people just want to know "about" God. Those who dare to jump from the boat of knowledge and dive into nothingness are very very few.”

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“To bear an unbearable weight put on us by life, we seek strength from our long forgotten inner roots. Roots bear the weight only up to a limit. Then they let something old break in us and something new grow. At that point of transformation, we say good bye to the weight with no complaint, only gratitude.”

Life Peace Healing Gratitude Letting Go Inner Strength

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“Recklessness comes from ego. Fearlessness comes from letting go.”

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

Life Children Play Present Moment Seriousness

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“Your questions are useless if your mind makes them as easily as a bubble-blower makes bubbles. A question should burn like fire. It should take you to a journey.”

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“Why do you want to put clothes of explanation on everything? Why don't you let a few things remain naked, mysterious, original, raw?”

Philosophy Answers Psychology Curiosity Explanation Questions

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“The journey you undertake to get your answers is more important than the answers. The journey awakens your soul while readymade answers just pile up in your head.”

Spirituality Answers Journey Experience Questions Search

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“While trying to align yourself with people, don't misalign yourself with the universe.”

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“The sky, the mountains, the trees, the lakes, the air, the Earth, the stars, the moon, the Sun -- all are yours. Don't let the human circus make you forget that you're the child of the universe.”

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“In physical intimacy, you remove just clothes and facades. In spiritual intimacy, you remove yourself. The latter is possible only in a love affair with the universe, who is sometimes rough but mostly a gentle lover.”

Love Spirituality Universe Feminine Divine Love Tantra

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“A leaf wants to meet the tree. What should it do? It should find out whether it is actually a leaf or it is a power which is falsely identifying itself as leaf.”

Truth Spirituality Universe Illusion Vedanta Supreme Truth

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“When you drink water, the clouds, rivers, ocean, wells and icy mountains should come in your mind. But human ego makes you think that water was created in a factory. Let go of ego and be one with the universe. Ego uses you, the universe nourishes you.”

Spirituality Universe Awareness Ego Mindfulness No Mind

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“To materialize your wish, the universe has to change the things around you. Your body is also one of those things. Drop the idea of ownership over your body and consider it as just another part of the universe. Otherwise either your wish will never materialize or it will materialize in a distorted way.”

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“At a place, I heard the river talking to the banks, “I have travelled so far, how far to go before I reach the ocean? Please guide.” The banks were silent. But there was an answer in the silence, “From the origin to the end, you are a single unit, 0 River! Stop identifying yourself as water. You, the river, are already in touch with the ocean.”

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“Millions of books have been published in English language. Can you merge them all into one book? Sounds impossible? Merge all the words of all the books in a single file, delete multiple occurrences of the same word, arrange the words in alphabetical order. What do you get? A small book with list of all English words. A book smaller than a dictionary. This world seems so complex. More outward you go, more complex it gets. More inward you go, simpler it gets. At the origin, it’s so simple that we can’t describe it using complicated human language.”

Philosophy Spirituality Universe Language Awakening Oneness

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“Your legs, hands, eyes etc. have come together in ONE PLACE to create a system which is called a “Body”. It helps you fulfill your desires. Your friends, family, co-workers, leaders etc. have come together in ONE TIME to create a system which is called “life”. The day you start feeling that you are the brain of this system, the day you start feeling that you are the origin of everything around you, everyone will seem to be working to fulfill your desires.”

Spirituality Universe Enlightenment Oneness Law Of Attraction New Age

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“Best charity is to give yourself away to the universe. Let the universal intelligence direct your actions.”

Spirituality Universe Ego Enlightenment Charity Awakening

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“It is tragic that the best healers attract the unhealable patients.”

Life Wisdom Truth Spirituality Universe Healing

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“There are trillions of bacteria living in your body. As compared to planet Earth, your body is just a bacteria. As compared to the galaxy. the Earth is just a bacteria. Only the experiences are real for the soul. The matter and thoughts are just props to create the experience.”

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“If you uncover yourself and find who you are, the universe will also uncover itself before you, If you try to forcefully uncover the universe without uncovering yourself, you will meet endless layers after layers of planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter and what not!”

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“You have been taught things only from human perspective. To be holy, you must have holistic perspective. You must see things from other perspectives. For example: A Mango tree does business with human beings. It covers its seeds with sweet pulp and says, “My seeds can’t grow under my shade. So please take my seeds away from me. As your service fee, you can have the pulp.”

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“Two friends were trekking a mountain. One was motivating the other. “Come on! Think of the magical view from the peak. It will be worth the struggle.” When they reached the peak, they got to see nothing but fog.” Universe is the lover you can’t fool around with. You must love truly. You must love the whole journey. Then only you will get the magical view at the peak.”

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“Two things happen at the same time: In inner world, your soul starts surrendering to the supreme soul (Paramatma]. In outer world, a love affair starts between your body-mind and the rest of the universe. And the universe loves like no lover ever can.”

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“Suppose that the universe has a battery. If you take out the battery, universe becomes non existent. But then the battery will exist! Both the battery and the universe can’t be non-existent. When one is in existence, the other is in non-existence. This absolute combination is known by many names: Shiva-Shakti, Shunya-Srishti, Pure Feminine-Pure Masculine.”

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“You have the power to sit in the present moment like the king/queen of the universe and watch the magical show being performed for you by everything and everyone, including the body-mind that you call yours.”

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“It is dangerous to turn a fast car. Slow down so that the universe can turn you towards the right direction.”

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“In comparison to the size of Mother Earth, human bodies are just bacteria surviving on her skin. You are not human body. You are here just to watch the show.”

Life Wisdom Truth Spirituality Universe Perspective

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“Flowers, trees, rocks... All shapes in nature are beautiful. If you don't resist change and let universe shape your life, it will always be beautiful.”

Life Wisdom Universe Nature Beauty Surrender Let Go

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“If the creation is a joke told by God, human thoughts are like explanation of that joke. Explanation ruins the whole joke.”

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“See the past memories as just information, not a hard reality that you have lived. Then they will become detachable like a Pen Drive. Everything around you will feel new. You will be like a Time traveller who has just checked in to this moment.”

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“Universe is like a printer. It can give you a hard copy of anything you believe. Having a hard copy doesn't mean that your belief is the only truth. There is no point in fighting over beliefs. Print something beautiful with this magical printer.”

Truth Spirituality Universe Belief Law Of Attraction

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“Universe can be imagined as a huge residential building. The view is different from different floors and apartments. Humanity is just one floor. A belief system is just one apartment on this floor. Free yourself from self-imposed limits. Whole building is yours!”

Truth Faith Universe Belief Perspective Buddhism Hinduism

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“Universe is your beloved, not a shopkeeper. Make a wish and forget about it. He will tease you before He surprises you.”

Life Spirituality Universe Wish Prayer

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“Two enemies try to destroy each other so that only one of them remains. Two lovers also want to become one unit. This whole circus is happening because we are trying to 'create' oneness instead of trying to realize that we are already one.”

Love Spirituality Universe Enlightenment Oneness Enemies Realisation

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“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.”

Wisdom Universe Enlightenment Essence Awakening Nothingness

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“The whole world is a family.” It has become a moralistic phrase. Ancient Indian sages had designed it as a powerful thought experiment: Imagine that whole world is a small family. That family is living alone, surrounded by infinite dark space in which countless planets and suns and galaxies are floating.”

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“The universe is so complete in itself that anything is possible here. Even horses can fly in some realm. Don’t waste your energy in defending and holding onto your beliefs and opinions. Let that energy enrich your experiences instead.”

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“Young Shani Deva was extremely attached to his mother. She became fatally Ill. To get a cure for her, he decided to climb mount Kailash and meet the supreme God. To climb higher and higher, he had to let go of all his baggages, including the baggage of attachment to mother. Then two things happened at the same time: God met him and his mother got cured. Attachment harms our loved ones, love heals them.”

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“If your needs (not desires) are within your resources, you are blessed. If a blessed person has no friends, universe does not create situations in which he would need a friend.”

Needs Philosophy Religion Universe Blessing Desires

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“A dentist can work on you only if you remain calmly sitting in the chair. Usually our wish gets fulfilled when we get tired and stop wishing for it. Because that’s when we become calm and allow divine energies to work upon us.”

God Religion Faith Universe Wish Karma

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“Nothingness is the source of everything. But if you want to take an apple out of it, so many other things will come out along with apple: The farmer who produced it, the farm, the seed shop, farmer’s family and ancestors... a whole new universe will come out with apple.”

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“You are a small part of the universe. How can another small part make you complete? The line you have drawn between you and the rest of the universe is Ego. When that line vanishes, you become complete.”

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“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.”

Life Wisdom Spirituality Universe Nature Secret Mystery

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“Solitude means dwelling in your uniqueness and originality which can't be shared with anyone else.”

Peace Meditation Solitude Mindfulness Aloneness

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“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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