“There are a hundred layers of dust and you are saying, 'This layer is mind, this layer is soul. I want to remove this and save this.' No. All of it is mind. All of it has to go. You have to go. What will remain is the divine you.” MindSoulSpiritualityDivineBuddhismHinduismDualityAdvaitavad Author:Shunya
“God passes by you every moment. You can't see Him because you are walking around with a huge checklist of how He should be. Drop your judgemental mind. Drop yourself and you shall arise with His light shining through you.” MindSoulGodGood And EvilHinduismDualityJudgmental Mind Author:Shunya
“Your hungry mind has become the gatekeeper of your soul. Everything I bring for your soul gets consumed by your mind. How long will I keep doing the crime of feeding your mind?” MindSoulSpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakening Author:Shunya
“A character can't get out of a story. But thankfully, you're not a character. You are just attached to a character.” SoulSpiritualityDualityVedantaAdvaitavad Author:Shunya
“If there is 50kg load on your head, you can let go of it. But here the question is of letting go of your entire self. If you save even a bit of yourself, the magic won't happen. Instead you will twist yourself. So many twisted minds and egos out there!” MindSoulReligionSpiritualityEgoNew Age Author:Shunya
“Clarity is always in the present moment. If in this moment you have decided on something and accepted its consequences, you have clarity. Not deciding is also a decision. If in this moment, you choose to remain indecisive and accept its consequences, you have clarity.” LifeMindSoulWisdomClarityInner SelfDecisiveness Author:Shunya
“Don't run away from a dilemma. Be with it; Inner clarity shall arise.” SoulSpiritualityStressConvictionClarityDilemma Author:Shunya
“Either see every particle of the universe as living (at atomic level, there is life-like movement even in a stone) or see everything as non-living (like 3D images appearing on a projection screen). If you keep dividing things as living and non-living, you can't go beyond human mind.” MindSoulMysticismOccult Author:Shunya
“Like the small moon eclipses the Sun, your mind is eclipsing your soul, which shines inside you with the power of a thousand Suns.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismZenNo MindNo Thought Author:Shunya
“What you think, speak and do is mostly in reaction to the people and situation around you. Rare are those moments when your bare soul expresses itself from deep within.” MindSoulPhilosophyPsychologyInner Self Author:Shunya
“The names you have given to everything are not just names. They are the very fabric of the curtain which is separating you from God.” MindSoulGodSpiritualityHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“Relax, you're just playing a role. Your original self is powerful and eternal.” MindSoulSelfPowerfulSelf Love Author:Shunya
“The recess bell has rung. The teacher is just wrapping up her lecture. Only your body is inside the class. Your mind is already in a different zone. Remember that joyful feeling? When the bell of awareness rings, your body and mind remain in the world, but you see them from a distance, from a different zone altogether. You feel very light, relieved from the unnecessary baggage.” SoulMeditationAwarenessMindfulnessAwakeningDetachment Author:Shunya
“Even if somebody was mean to you in school days, you will feel good to meet them after many years. Childhood memories are the roots of your physical self. You feel good even if an enemy waters them. Similarly, there are soul connections. Even if somebody was your enemy in previous births, you will feel good to meet them in this birth. And often the story repeats ... the enemies of your previous births create more havoc in your life disguised as friends.” MindSoulUniverseRelationshipsMysticismSoulmateOccultSoul Connection Author:Shunya
“You left home with a beautiful umbrella, an umbrella with golden handle. Heat and rain falling from the sky (bad experiences in life) forced you to open it. Since then, you are tightly holding it, searching for the path to reach back home. Open your fist. The map is printed on the golden handle of your umbrella.” MindSoulTruthSpiritualityIllusionSeeker Author:Shunya
“When Maya (external world) gives you (the soul) a rose (good or bad experience), you feel indebted (Karmic Debt). You feel bound to give her company. When you realize that the Maya will go on even when you are not with her, you will get the courage to do the divine break-up. You will get liberation.” SoulMysticismHinduismMysticEsoteric Author:Shunya
“A princess was known as “Beauty without Soul”. No prince was ready to marry her because she didn’t have a soul. She went to the Temple of Souls to get a soul. The head monk of temple was very ugly. She said to him, “if an ugly person like you is in charge of souls, I am better without a soul.” When she came out of the temple, many princes were standing in line with marriage proposal because she had accepted herself the way she was, she had accepted that she was alright without a soul. In other words, she now had a soul.” SoulSpiritualitySelf HelpSelf LoveParadox Author:Shunya
“If you identify yourself as this clay lamp, your soul becomes rooted to one place. If you identify as the flame, your soul can switch through thousands of flames burning all over the world.” SoulMysticismHinduismOccultTantraKundalini Author:Shunya
“Like Anesthesia detaches mind from body, supreme knowledge detaches the soul from body-mind.” MindSoulSpiritualityInner PeaceDetachmentSupreme Knowledge Author:Shunya
“Imagine that a scientist creates a human clone in a lab based on the genes of a real man called Raghu. It looks exactly like Raghu. Through virtual reality (VR), its mind is fed with experiences and memories of Raghu so that now it believes that it is Raghu. Now both of them -Raghu and the clone - behave exactly the same way. They cry on same things, laugh on same things. How would you find out which one of them has a soul?” MindSoulPhilosophyReligionSpiritualityHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“In a movie, when a character receives a letter, she reads it aloud for the audience. Other characters of the movie can’t know the secret, but she tells it to the audience. Be the audience if you want to know the deepest secrets of the universe. Be the audience if you want to make sense of what is happening around you. Your character is the doer while your soul is the audience. Be at the level of soul more often.” MindSoulAwakeningSelf RealizationNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya
“You browse through Netflix or Hotstar to find something interesting to watch. At last, you end up watching your favourite show that you have already watched several times. This world is also a show. But there are many such shows available in parallel realms. When you go to sleep here, your soul browses through the list of other shows, watches a few teasers, but at last comes back to this show because it is attached to the characters of this show.” SoulSpiritualityAttachmentQuantum PhysicsParallel UniversesFreewill Author:Shunya
“A fish swam a thousand miles through the river and finally met the ocean. The Ocean laughed at this and said, “You are clearly joking. You are a local fish.” Often we do a lot for our family and friends. But then, in just one instant, everything is forgotten. Not just that, we suddenly become villain for them.” LifeMindSoulSpiritualityRelationshipsPsychologyHuman Behaviour Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like a runway on airport. It can launch you in the sky so that you can fly to your desired destination. But you have become so attached to the airport that you are using the runway as a road to drive around.” MindSoulSpiritualityMysteryEnlightenmentAwakeningMysticism Author:Shunya
“Your life script is like a newspaper cutting. On the front, there is a clean cut article detailing your life, but on the back side there are some random news items which have nothing to do with your life. If you are clueless about what’s happening in your life, you are reading it from the back side. Aware souls read it correctly so that whatever is in the script (mind) manifests outside.” LifeSoulSpiritualityUniverseEnergyOnenessNew Age Author:Shunya
“When we meet a new person, our mind builds their sketch based on the information available. But even a lifetime is not enough to get full information about a person. So, our mind fills in the missing information with its own convenient prejudices. The person you love is not as good as your mind makes you believe. And the person you hate is not as bad as your mind makes you believe.” MindSoulSpiritualityPsychologyGoodBeliefsPrejudices Author:Shunya
“Your sorrows and pain are like a hot desert in a summer afternoon. When the night falls and moon rises, same desert turns into an unparalleled beauty. Let the moon of awareness rise in your life.” SoulPainAwarenessAwakening Author:Shunya
“If something beautiful is written on a whiteboard, you may never wipe it. Scars on your soul are like random lines scribbled on a whiteboard. They are an invitation to wipe away the past and future and live in eternity. Therefore, scars are sacred.” SoulPainSpiritualityHealingTraumaScars Author:Shunya
“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?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“After closing a bad chapter in life, allow your soul to heal your old and new wounds. Otherwise the script of next chapter will be the same, only characters will change.” MindSoulSpiritualityHealingPsychologyWounds Author:Shunya
“You have trapped your soul inside the boundaries set by your mind. Body-mind are just instruments. There are a thousand instruments of same shape and size. Let your soul choose one freely.” MindSoulSpiritualityMysticismHinduismOccult Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNondualityAdvaitaVedanta Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline. While trying to find the path which is beyond all opposites, you will realize that you are not mind.” MindSoulBuddhismHinduismNondualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“There are no colours. There are things and light that appear to have colours. Our mind labels them as Red, Green, Blue etc. But they too are just labels, not colours. Colours are non-existent. But non-existence is more real and alive than existence. Your real self (soul) resides in non-existence.” SoulPhilosophyExistenceEnlightenmentAwakeningHigher Self Author:Shunya
“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.” MindSoulPhilosophyPsychologyBuddhismZenOnenessNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Not taking an action is also an action. Not making a choice is also a choice. Body-mind can't escape from action. But if your action or inaction is guided by the awareness of your soul and silence of your inner self, it will take you out of the mess.” SoulActionSpiritualityBuddhismKarmaZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“Suppose you have a weighing scale that has maximum weighing limit of 10kg. If I put things below 10 kg on it, it will measure them correctly. If I put an 11kg thing, it will measure it incorrectly as 10 kg. When you try to describe things that are beyond your limit, you end up describing yourself and your own limits.” MindSoulPhilosophyGodPsychologyMysticismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Painful experiences of the past are carved on your ego. Peel off all layers of your ego and you will find your spotless, pure and shining soul underneath.” SoulReligionSpiritualityEgoPurityScars Author:Shunya
“Seekers get out of almost all layers of division, duality and two-ness. But their ego keeps them stuck in the duality of human and non-human, living being and non-living being. They can't see everything as one. They speak big words about soul, gods and scriptures but have no experience of godliness.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Your body-mind has a past, not you. You are eternal.” SoulPastSpiritualSpiritualityBuddhismEternityHinduismHigher Self Author:Shunya
“You see a woman showing immense affection to her child and her dog. Then you see the same woman hating others' children and eating other animals. These kind of people have no love inside them. They are just soul-less bags of flesh and blood that react to external stimulants.” LoveMindSoulSpiritualityCompassionKindnessAttachment Author:Shunya
“Human ego and drunk poets have ruined the powerful concept of soul and turned it into a flowery notion. Your character (body-mind) can function on its own. Soul doesn't do anything. It just witnesses what the character does. The character would go on as per its script even if your soul weren't here to witness it.” SoulDeathSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismFreewill Author:Shunya
“It's the nature of mind that it always wants to reach somewhere. Total acceptance also includes accepting this nature of mind. When total acceptance happens, soul awakens and mind calms down on its own.” MindSoulChangeAcceptance Author:Shunya
“When babies fall asleep at one place but wake up at another place, they don’t even feel surprised. They know that their mother must have shifted them during sleep. If something similar happens to you, you will freak out. This attachment to the body and the surroundings is the reason your higher self is not able to shift you to better scenes in life.” MindSoulFreedomBuddhismHinduismDetachmentHigher SelfFreewill Author:Shunya
“Phases in spiritual journey: First you are a fire (Fire to seek the truth). Then you turn into ash (Earth) and become compassionate towards everything like mother Earth. Then ash flows into water. You want to wash away all the darkness inside and outside you. Then water evaporates and becomes air. Your notions about dark and light, good and bad evaporate. Then the trickiest part is to realize the Shunya or nothingness. Air can’t become Shunya. Everything including air is inside Shunya.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNothingnessShunyaFive Elements Author:Shunya
“In cricket fielding, if catch comes right in your hand, there is no fun. You enjoy the most when you have to dive to catch the ball. This is what playfulness is all about. Difference between being a servant of someone and surrendering to someone is playfulness. Don’t make things too easy in your relationship with your spouse or children or gods. Keep the playfulness alive.” MindSoulSpiritualityRelationshipsBuddhismSurrenderDevotionHinduismPlayfulness Author:Shunya
“Draw some dashes on a paper. Now mentally try to create a line by joining two of more dashes. Did you do it? Where is the line you just created? It’s in your mind. It has no existence except in your mind. The relationship between you and the line you just created is same as the relationship between the supreme soul (Paramaatma) and soul. The souls have no separate existence.” SoulOnenessHinduismAdvaitaVedantaNon Duality Author:Shunya
“A Yogi in solitude romances with life. The rays of sunlight falling on his skin have travelled millions of kilometers to meet him. What a passion! The food he has prepared has not been seen by anybody except him. What an intimacy! The pebble he has just thrown in river will never be seen by anybody ever again. What a heartbreak!” SoulSpiritualityUniverseWonderMeditationSolitudeMindfulnessAloneness Author:Shunya
“A rock sits on the ground while a flower sits on a thin stem a few inches above the ground. Both are stable in their positions. If the flower tries to mimic the stone’s stability and falls on the ground, it will die. You have to find your own stability in life. What is stablility for someone else may cause pain and fear in your life.” MindSoulSpiritualitySecurityStabilityInner Self Author:Shunya
“You are taking bath. A bad memory comes in your mind. You keep pouring water. Water running on your body gives you so much relief because it seems to be washing off a thin dark layer that you don’t want. Similarly, a new costume is nothing but a new layer of cloth that you add to yourself. It makes you feel so good. To bring a massive change in your life, you don’t have to become like someone else. You have to become yourself plus and minus a thin ayer. Permanent change will happen only if that plus and minus happens to your soul, not body: Plus and minus of Karma and Desires accumulated on your soul. Your soul knows how to bathe itself. You just have to give it some room by creating wall of detachment.” SoulSpiritualityMeditationSelf LoveDetachment Author:Shunya