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“If you've realized that all this is a cosmic drama, you can play a victorious role in it because you have the power of awareness with you.”

Spirituality Awareness Victory Illusion Awakening Dharma

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“You can either hesitate to do something on which others might comment, or you can do something so boldly that others hesitate to comment on it.”

People Spirituality Psychology Confidence Human Behavior Boldness

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“When children act serious, we feel amused by them. People are just children who have taken their roles too seriously. If you feel anything but amused by them, you too have taken your role too seriously.”

People Spirituality Society Awakening Inner Child Cosmic Joke

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“People are constantly searching for an external enemy in order to forget their internal conflicts. Don’t oblige them. Stay detached.”

People Psychology Solitude Conflict Inner Peace Detachment

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“When milkman knocks at the door, you don’t have to open it. Let him leave the milk at the door. Similarly, you don’t have to react to everything people say or do in your life.”

People Mind Society Solitude Anger Inner Peace

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“We notice our own quality when we see lack of it in someone else. Others work like mirrors for us in various ways.”

People Life Philosophy Religion Spirituality Karma

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“You want to hear something sweet and you want to hear the truth. How are both things possible at the same time?”

Love Truth Spirituality Ego Lies Beliefs

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“Only love can handle honesty, not attachment. Hence love is free from lies while attachment is the breeding ground of lies.”

Love Life Mind Heart Truth Relationships Psychology Lies Attachment

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“Don't show so much attachment to someone that they start lying to keep your heart.”

Love Mind Heart Soul Truth Happiness Relationships Lies Attachment Untruth

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“You will get love and respect from others when you stop craving for it.”

Love Life Spirituality Self Love Respect Dignity Self Respect

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“Society gives you some goals. You achieve them after much effort. You celebrate for a few days. Then life becomes the same as before. You don't get the happiness you were expecting. Achievements feel useless. Then you attach your pride to them to make them seem useful. Pride is a tool of self deception.”

Life Philosophy Wisdom Spirituality Psychology Pride Self Deception

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“I am silent at your argument because I see what you see and much more that you don't see.”

Life Silence Perspective Argument Logic Reasoning Broad Mindedness

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“In a world where everyone seems to be an expert of everything, say 'I don't know' more often.”

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“Your unusual anger or unusual silence may make someone introspect while usual anger or usual silence may have no or opposite effect. To make an impact, you have to do the unexpected.”

Life Wisdom Change Silence Anger Nonviolence

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“A scientist is more doubtful of his theories than the science teacher who teaches those theories. A Guru is more doubtful of his words than his followers because he knows that everything except silence is a corruption of truth.”

Silence Buddhism Awakening Zen Hinduism Absolute Truth

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“Words spoken by two people in any relationship are so predictable. Countless people are saying the same sentences, word by word. It's all so stale. Only silence is new every moment.”

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“Further away you are from the truth, more you talk about it.”

Truth Spirituality Peace Silence Preaching Philisophy

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“No statement is true. Silence is the only truth. But to guide you towards eternal silence, a Guru has to make statements. Some Gurus make sensational statements to awaken people because people are deep sleep on the couch of their belief systems.”

Silence Eternity Nothingness No Mind No Thought Shunya

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“You're not holding opinions; opinions are holding you and stopping you from reaching the truth which is beyond all opinions.”

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“There is a veil between you and God. Thoughts are like embroidery on that veil. People are doing more and more embroidery on your veil and making it more and more obscure.”

God Silence Buddhism Solitude Thoughts Zen Hinduism

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“In literature, words are used to give pleasures to your mind. In spirituality, words are used to take you beyond mind into the ultimate bliss of wordlessness (silence). Many seekers mistake spirituality as literature. They just enjoy the use of poetic words and stories.”

Mind Spirituality Silence Buddhism Zen No Thought

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“Instead of looking at the things, look into the blank space around and within them... Acknowledge the blank surface on which words are written... acknowledge the nothingness that contains everything. Soon you will start experiencing the silence amidst all the noise.”

Spirituality Silence Meditation Mindfulness Nothingness

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“People create conflicts, arguments and all sorts of noise to help each other avoid silence. Because nothing scares a mind more than silence. Silence is the language of soul. The soul talks to God when mind stops talking about God.”

Peace Silence Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness

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“When a seed starts fearing the soil, it runs to the lab to become a hybrid. Seed is you. Soil is your inner world. Lab is society.”

Spirituality Silence Society Solitude Inner World

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“There are no exams in playschool. If you are tired of exams and tests life is throwing at you, make your life like a book from playschool: Less words, more pictures. Less conclusions, more stories. Less meaning, more poetry. Less interpretations, more direct experiences.”

Life Spirituality Silence Buddhism Solitude Zen

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“If two deer meet in a jungle, they silently eat the grass or play. I am this... You did this... How dare you say that... All these arguments take place only when one of them is not a deer. And these arguments will reach no conclusion. They should either silently accept each other or silently walk away. Silence is the most natural thing in both the cases.”

Life Spirituality Silence Buddhism Argument Zen Hinduism Non Violence

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“Peacock is dancing.” These words can’t show you the dance that I am seeing right now. They can only invoke your past memory when you had seen a peacock dancing. Words always keep you in the past or future. Only silence can let you enjoy the present.”

Mind Language Silence Buddhism Thoughts Zen Hinduism No Thought

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“When you say “Don’t judge”, you are judging those who judge. To say “Be Silent” to yourself, you have to break your silence. The thought of “being thoughtless” is there even when you are thoughtless. Spiritual truths can’t be practiced at mind level. You have to discover something deeper than the mind which is already non-judgemental, silent and thoughtless, Jo”

Silence Judging Buddhism Zen Hinduism Advaita Vedanta Thoughtlessness

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“If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music. Most people just keep shuttling between noise and music. To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise.”

Religion Spirituality Silence Meditation Buddhism Zen Hinduism Nothingness

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“People are constantly seeking drama in their life. If you refuse to be a character in their drama, they cast you in silent role by calling you arrogant.”

Life Spirituality Peace Silence Mindfulness

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

Life Spirituality Silence Buddhism Zen Nothingness

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“Talking softly when you are not sick, walking gently when you're not old, staying silent when you have words and so on... The energy you thus save lights your inner lamp and summons the higher powers.”

Wisdom Spirituality Energy Peace Silence Buddhism Hinduism

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“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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“Your whole being is like a home. Everyone is allowed to come at the door, only a few in living room, fewer still in bedroom. And then there is a secret room where nobody is allowed. Not even your own mind. We are so obsessed with others that we mostly live at the door (outer appearance) or in living room (job, relationship and travel that we do to fit with others).”

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“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.”

Joy Silence Knowledge Buddhism Experience Words Hinduism

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“Some people are like echo. They will always have the last word in an argument, Even if you tell them that they are like echo, they will retort. Finally you have to settle for silence. Not just some people but the entire Space-Time is an echo chamber of duality. When you realize this, you settle for the eternal silence.”

Soul Silence Buddhism Enlightenment Eternity Awakening Hinduism Advaita Duality

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“People speak for two reasons, One, they speak to express what is in their mind. Second, and more often, they speak to hide something that silence might otherwise reveal.”

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“God said, "I am the one and only word spoken in the language of silence. All the words spoken or written by the mankind are just an attempt to translate me into their language. So many holy and unholy books, so many theories, ideologies, doctrines, dogmas_. Why. humanity. why? Why can’t you accept that I can’t be translated? Why can’t you return to the language of silence in which I am originally written?”

God Religion Spirituality Silence Society Dogma Beliefs

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“Life is a silent movie. Society gives you subtitles (thoughts and words) which ruin the whole movie.”

Life Spirituality Silence Society Buddhism Zane

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“Software is not supposed to damage hardware. Mind is not supposed to damage body. But it is happening in most people. In some cases mind is so nasty that it is ready to kill the body instead of killing itself. When individual mind goes, universal mind takes over. Then peace dawns because body belongs to the universe.”

Mind Soul Body Psychology Suicide Mental Health Suicidal Thoughts

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“Soul is absolutely free. It is so free that it can choose to be someone who is not free.”

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“Bumps in the road help in awakening the bird sleeping inside the car.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Awareness Awakening Enlightened Seeker

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“Mind is like an addictive smartphone. When it hangs (due to emotional turmoil, moral dilemma etc.), it is an opportunity to be free from it.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Awareness Liberation

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“This world is like an endless TV serial. If you keep discussing the characters and plots, you will never find the one who is watching this from the seat of eternity.”

Soul God Buddhism Eternity Hinduism

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“Mind is like a blackboard-cum-door behind which there is a library of infinite knowldge. What is written on the blackboard is actually a distraction that doesn't let you see the door.”

Mind Soul Wisdom Spirituality Knowledge Hinduism No Mind

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“Bucket may contain some ocean water, not the entire ocean. Your mind can contain theories and stories about gods, not the actual gods.”

Mind Soul God Religion Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening Shunya

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“Suppose you're inside a room and the room starts moving with you. If you take one step, room also moves one step. How will you get out of it? (Your mind is like that room).”

Mind Soul Philosophy Spirituality Liberation

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“Now Gurus remind you that you're not a body-mind, you're a soul. In a few years, Gurus will remind you that you're not a social media profile, you're a body-mind.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Psychology Social Media Internet Addiction

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“When you no longer want relief, a cure will come to you.”

Soul God Pain Heartache Scars Seeker

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“You're not something static. You are the mobile consciousness. You can be at 4 levels: (1) body (2) mind (3) soul or (4) supreme-soul (Nothingness) If you're stuck at mind level, come down to body level. Do physical things with all your five senses open. Once you realize that you are mobile, you can move upwards also.”

Soul Spirituality Consciousness Awareness

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