“All your spiritual knowledge will just remain a theory until you go in full solitude. How long will you keep talking to your shadows (people around you)?” ReligionSpiritualitySolitudeMiracleHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“Yogis living alone in mountains believe that spiritual groups do exactly opposite of what they intend to do. They become plateforms for abnormal people to come together and feel normal. These abnormal people have the potential to find God if they seek Him alone.” SolitudeYogiSpiritual OrganizationsYogic WisdomSpiritual Groups Author:Shunya
“Tea made for one person has rare herbs in it. Tea made for a group has lots of sugar in it. Those who go alone on spiritual journey get the rare treasure of knowledge. Those who join a group just sing sweet glories of ancient knowledge, instead of getting the actual knowledge.” PhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismSolitudeHinduism Author:Shunya
“A turbulent state of mind is a necessity to do all the crazy things society is making you do. A peaceful mind can't do all this. Don't seek peace. Seek more turbulence if you want to continue with this madness.” SpiritualityPeaceSocietySolitudeRat Race Author:Shunya
“When you're alone at home, go to the mirror and stare at your reflection. You will get scared of yourself. Story of your life is actually a story of how you're running away from yourself and taking refuge in others.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySolitudeInner Self Author:Shunya
“Solitude is like a river bank where the truth is waiting for you with a boat.” SpiritualitySolitudeSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“If two types of attachments are pulling you in two opposite direction and you're not able to decide which way to go, take a break from both attachments. Conflict will automatically resolve. A few months of solitude can save you from lifetime of complications.” LoveLifeSpiritualitySolitudeAttachmentDetachmentDilemma Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeSpiritualityPeaceLife QuotesBuddhismSolitudeMinimalism Author:Shunya
“Mind buries bad memories deep into the subconscious and keeps good memories on the surface. Your 'good old days' were not as good as your mind makes you believe.” HealingPsychologyTraumaNostalgia Author:Shunya
“Don't judge your past actions in the present context.” LifeWisdomPastJudgingRegretGuilt Author:Shunya
“If you have said something wrong, say sorry. But if you have done something wrong, feel sorry. Feeling sorry will telepathically communicate your apology to the other person if they deserve it.” RegretCommunicationForgivenessSorryGuiltyTelepathy Author:Shunya
“If you're feeling guilty about something, material related to guilt is coming in your life. Related news, quotes, videos, quotes etc. reach you and either heighten your guilt or lower it. Even if your guilt is eventually resolved by something, what is the point of the whole journey of guilt? If you had something better in mind than guilt, something better would have come in your life, not things related to guilt.” LifeWisdomRegretGuiltBurdenLaw Of Attraction Author:Shunya
“It’s very painful when circumstances don’t allow you to act as per your nature. It may force you to change your nature. If you keep shame, guilt, regret etc. away, this change can be a transformation of caterpillar into butterfly.” LifePainSpiritualityRegretCircumstancesTransformationGuiltHinduism Author:Shunya
“Think again about your home address. It says, "| don't know where is my home but there are this many houses outside it. There is this street outside it. There is this locality, this state, this country, this planet outside it..." You only know what is outside your home. You don't know where exactly it is.” PhilosophyWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeDeep Author:Shunya
“Any decision you take can have good and bad consequences. (No decision is also a decision.) If you’re ready to accept the consequences, it will turn out to be good decision. Because action and its consequences make the whole circle. Acceptance of the whole brings blessings of the whole (The Supreme Power).” LifeGodWisdomSpiritualityConfusionDecisionsHinduismConsequencesDoubts Author:Shunya
“Two horses stand before you. One is domesticated, meek, and loyal. The other is wild, bold and fickle. You feel attracted towards the wild one. And then you complain why it is not loyal!” LoveRelationshipsEmotionsAttractionLoyalty Author:Shunya
“We all have soft spots hidden behind a cover. Once in a while they get exposed and make us cry. But if you're always in victim mode, you're deliberately keeping your soft spots exposed to get a twisted kind of pain and pleasure out of them.” PsychologyEmotionsTraumaVictimhood Author:Shunya
“Society is a prison where prisoners are keeping each other hostage.” FreedomSocietyEmotionsLiberationAttachment Author:Shunya
“The princess asked for a diamond ring from her father, the king. He said, “People are dying of hunger and you want a ring?” Princess cried tears of sorrow. She went to the Prince, her husband, who gifted her the ring. She cried tears of happiness. To please her father, she auctioned the ring and fed the poor with the money she got. Her father, the king, cried the tears of happiness to see this. The prince felt bad that the princess didn’t keep his gift. He cried tears of sorrow. The unending chain of emotions!” LifeEmotionsIllusionMaya Author:Shunya
“Those who are in sorrow, cry. Those who are in too much sorrow, laugh. Those who are in joy, laugh. Those who are in too much joy, cry. Emotions are a ferry wheel.” JoySorrowEmotionsNondualityDuality Author:Shunya
“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.” LoveLifePainSpiritualityRelationshipsSeparation Author:Shunya
“Gratitude is often mistaken with humility. Gratitude erupts from inside you. You wear humility out of fear of losing things. One technique to experience gratitude is to sleep on the floor and fast. No fear... No insecurity... Pure gratitude for simple things such as food and bed.” LifeReligionSpiritualityHumilityGratitude Author:Shunya
“In movies, they show hero as a victim first to make his violence look heroic. Similarly, all groups that incite violence make you feel victimized first so that you can feel like a hero when you do violence.” ReligionSpiritualityPoliticsPsychologyViolenceSocietyCommunismRiotOrthodoxy Author:Shunya
“Transparent children of God, competing with each other to look different, have put on layers and layers of colourful illusions.” GodReligionSpiritualitySocietyComparisonRat Race Author:Shunya
“It's good that they couldn't paint you fully with dull colours of normalcy. Some streaks of abnormality, some patches of madness are still visible on you like divine signatures.” SocietyUniquenessAbnormality Author:Shunya
“People no longer have 'disease'. Now they have 'health issues' that can be managed if they regularly visit hospitals. The system doesn't solve problems. It uses fancy terms to normalize and regularize them and makes them part of economy.” TruthSocietyLiberationProblemsSystem Author:Shunya
“Sympathy and outrage are the only two emotions people know these days. They have forgotten how to love a well and happy person. They are desperately attracting things in their life over which they can show sympathy or outrage.” PainPsychologySocietyTherapyActivist Author:Shunya
“World has become a market. In a market, things that don't sell disappear. Love doesn't sell, sympathy sells. Love has disappeared, sympathy is all that is left. We either play victim to get sympathy or we search for victims to give sympathy.” LovePhilosophyPsychologySocietySympathyConsumerism Author:Shunya
“What do you do?" "I am in search of God." A culture where this answer is considered 'abnormal' is doomed.” GodReligionCultureSocietySeeker Author:Shunya
“There is chaos all around and you are looking for oneness and unity. Most of you're sticking with a unit called body which hardly lasts 100 years, or to units such as family, cast, religion, country or humanity. Humanity is the largest of them which lasts a few thousand years. That is nothing compared to the eternal oneness, the unit that lasts forever. Find that!” ReligionHumanitySocietyEternityUnityOneness Author:Shunya
“Don't let them rob your feminine in the name of feminism. Amputation is not a cure of the wound.” SocietyFeminismBuddhismFeminineWomen EmpowermentHinduismTantraShakti Author:Shunya
“Unique things can't be compared. Human beings discard their uniqueness and try to become like each other so that they can compare with each other. Comparison creates feeling of being superior or inferior, weak or powerful. Human being crave both. Feeling weak gives a different kind of release than feeling powerful.” PhilosophySpiritualitySocietyBuddhismComparisonHinduismUniqueness Author:Shunya
“If you want to keep your social circle clean, don't hesitate to say 'No'. Those who don't understand your 'No' don't deserve your 'Yes'.” LifeReligionSpiritualityRelationshipsSocietyNoYesPhiloshophySocial Circle Author:Shunya
“If you feel that you are the owner of your body-mind, you are violent. No matter how much you suppress your violent energy, it will come out in some form, You will either harm yourself or others.” LifeSpiritualityViolenceSocietyBuddhismMoralityEnlightenmentNon Violence Author:Shunya
“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.” TruthReligionFaithSpiritualityBeliefSocietyDogmaRigidity Author:Shunya
“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.” PhilosophySpiritualitySocietyCustomsRules Author:Shunya
“Suppose you are chilling somewhere and see a diamond a few meters away on your right side. Your mind’s first reaction would be, “That must be a piece of glass, not diamond.” Now, on your left side a few meters away you spot an unknown object towards which 2 people are running from opposite side. Your mind’s reaction would be, “If two people are running towards that object, it must be something precious. Run and grab it before they do.” Often, our mind makes us compete with others over peanuts while the diamond which is meant for us lies unattended.” LifeLife QuotesSocietyComparisonRat Race Author:Shunya
“If you don't have a filter in your mind, you will immediately offend those who wear filters and masks. To avoid offending, you will also install a filter and become 'sane'.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySocietyInsanityBeing YourselfHypocrisySanity Author:Shunya
“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.” PhilosophySpiritualityPeaceJusticeSocietyMorality Author:Shunya
“Conversations are like movies. There has to be a villain to make them interesting. Often it’s difficult to find a safe, distant and common villain. Our desire to have a conversation is so strong that we end up making someone close to us a villain. “Mom, your favourite child did this.” “Dear husband, your mother did this.” “Son, your wife did this.” These are just attempts of a human mind to do an interesting conversation but they end up in a full fledged drama at home.” SpiritualityFamilyPsychologySocietyCommunicationConversation Author:Shunya
“If beautiful flowers were edible, you would eat them stale because you would use fresh flowers for decoration and display. Life is like a rare beautiful flower which is edible. We spend most of it in displaying to others.” LifeWisdomLife QuotesSocietyComparisonShow Off Author:Shunya
“Slavery and mastery are ugly things. But if the slave or master looks, behaves and talks in formal manner, slavery and mastery not only become acceptable but also respectable. After fire, formality is the next best discovery of mankind. Fire makes everything eatable, formality makes everything acceptable and respectable.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySocietyAnthropology Author:Shunya
“Complete truth and complete falsehood both don't engage people. A mixture of truth and falsehood engages everyone because some people try to prove it as truth and others as falsehood.” PhilosophyTruthSpiritualityPsychologySocietyMindfulnessFalsehood Author:Shunya
“We consume two type of information: One that makes us grow; Other that gives us an emotional release. The second type of information is being bombarded too much these days. Politicians, activists, entertainers, businesses, spiritual teachers, admins of online groups -- All are exploiting human emotions. People are turning into diary cows that can be milked anytime by giving an injection.” ReligionPoliticsPsychologySocietyInformationPropaganda Author:Shunya
“Rich, poor, high, low -- the one thing common in all human beings is misery. The real cause of their misery is that they have lost touch with their inner self. But if you want to become a leader of a group of human beings, tell them that the other group is the cause of their misery.” PhilosophyReligionSpiritualityPeaceViolenceSocietyInner SelfSect Author:Shunya
“A rich man exploits the poor and then donates some money to a temple. Then temple helps the poor. These are circles of life. If you try to break them, you will end up becoming a part of them. Have compassion for everyone involved in the circles, including yourself. This is the only way to be free from them.” PoorRichSocietyIllusionOppressionMayaAdvaita Vedanta Author:Shunya
“Reading people's bio feels like reading specifications of an assembled computer: X memory, Y processor, Z display... We are born unique but useless for society. Then we have to acquire and assemble some common things to become useful for the society.” SpiritualitySocietySelf LoveUniqueness Author:Shunya
“There is a circus going around you. If you enjoy it as an audience, you can go to your inner home anytime you want. If you get involved in the act, they will sign you up as a performer for lifetime.” LifeSocietyBuddhismChaosHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“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.” PhilosophySocietyGoodRighteousnessDogmaBadConvenience Author:Shunya
“Healthy flow of feminine and masculine energy takes place in a family or society where men stand up for women and women stand up for men. The flow gets contaminated when they try to control and manipulate each other.” SpiritualitySocietyFeminismFeminineMasculine Author:Shunya