“Mind is like government. Just as we file tax returns of all our transactions to government, we file return of all our experiences to mind.” MindWisdomSpiritualityZenNo ThoughtKnowldge Author:Shunya
“The universe is like an ocean but we break away from it and start living in our own little hole. Then we spend whole life preventing the hole from getting dry or muddy. Once you are one with the ocean, no polluted stream can make you impure and no fire can dry you.” SpiritualityUniverseLife PhilosophyBuddhismZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“A man carries around a stick to protect himself from street dogs. He doesn't realize that the stick is the reason why dogs become suspicious of him and bark at him. This circle of absurdity is behind every deep attachment (not love). We get attached to those who solve the problems that they indirectly cause in the first place.” LoveFearBuddhismAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“Turn inward: If you're asking 'why', also ask why 'why'? If your power is to question, also question the questioner in you.” PhilosophySpiritualityLogicReasoningInner JourneyTurn Inward Author:Shunya
“If your car is stuck and it needs a push, you can't push it from inside. Someone has to push it from outside. This is where faith comes into picture. It summons a power beyond your logical understanding.” FaithSpiritualityMysteryLogicOccult Author:Shunya
“These days, people of all religions and sects have this thought process in common: "God is with me because my heart and intentions are pure. Yes, my head is messy but my heart is pure. Yes, I did this and that but my intentions were not wrong." If everybody is so pure and pious, why is there so much pain and misery in this world?” GodReligionLogicIntentionKarmaDevotionHinduism Author:Shunya
“Suppose your mind has 1000 files stored about supreme knowledge but your friend’s mind has capacity to store only 10 files. You can’t prove to him that you have 1000 files because you can’t transfer more than 10 files to his mind. That is the problem in interacting with people with lower awareness than you. They hit a dead end beyond which you can’t help them unless they are ready to accept and expand their limit.” MindPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyLogicReasoning Author:Shunya
“In divine love or devotion, you lose yourself like ice melts into water. In love, you just lose control over yourself like iron loses control near a magnet; And when you regain control, you feel bad.” LovePsychologyDevotionHeartacheBreakupDivine LoveKrishna Author:Shunya
“A chef can make a dish with anything available. A child can make a play with anything available. You can make joy with anything available to you.” LifeHappinessJoySpiritualitySorrow Author:Shunya
“O boatman! Enjoy your skills and touch the river of life in your own unique ways. She will reward you with the treasures that you can't imagine. Those who are in a mad rush of reaching somewhere die empty handed, for the river is endless and time is a trap.” LifeJoySpiritualityPresentHere And NowSkill Author:Shunya
“Why didn't I think of that before!" Most difficult problems often have simplest solutions and they exist right under your nose. Defocus your mind once in a while. Give time to the things that you consider unimportant.” LifeMindJoySpiritualityProblemsSolutionDefocus Author:Shunya
“You behave like the perfect person with others. But you unload all your mental crap on those who are close to you. Is it fair?” LoveRelationshipsPsychologyHuman NatureHuman Behavior Author:Shunya
“If a friend is telling you positive things about their job or relationships, it doesn't mean that they are happy in them. They may be just consoling themselves by counting the positives.” LifeMindWisdomRelationshipsPsychologyHuman Nature Author:Shunya
“The evil power of fake currency is that it brings the original currency under suspicion and forces it to prove itself at every step.” LifePsychologyHuman NatureOriginality Author:Shunya
“Love is when you see a person as a person.” LoveLifeSpiritualityHuman NatureNondualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“If people weren't busy making a living and dealing with their problems, they would destroy each other in innovative ways. Misery is keeping the human race alive. An individual will continue to be miserable until she learns to handle lack of misery by knowing her true self.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyViolenceSocietyHuman NatureMiseryInner Self Author:Shunya
“One way to serve people is to let them blame you for their pain. The pain whose source is unknown is most unbearable. So people manufacture a source to reduce that pain.” LifeWisdomPainCompassionKindnessPsychology Author:Shunya
“You are infinite but the character you're playing has certain boundaries. Before you discover those healthy boundaries, you will be so excessively kind that your soul will cry and so excessively mean that your conscience will hurt.” SelfSpiritualityCompassionKindnessSelf Improvement Author:Shunya
“Laws of Karma work in unexpected ways. Help someone who doesn’t deserve it. Sometimes a poisonous well may have the pearl you are looking for.” CompassionKindnessKarmaHelp Author:Shunya
“Your kindness is only for the half. The compassion that will flow from deep inside you will be for everyone: rich-poor, deer-lion, wise-unwise because they all are caught in the trap that you will have escaped.” PhilosophyWisdomCompassionKindnessIllusionAdvaitaDuality Author:Shunya
“Kindness comes from your need of being needed. If you are kind, you are attracting people or animals that need you. Compassion is different. Compassion comes from your soul and first heals your own mind and your need of being needed.” PastHealingCompassionKindnessCharityNeediness Author:Shunya
“Lustful people are often very generous. Addicts often have a tender heart. Bad things about you often surround the best thing about you just as thorns surround a rose.” LifeSpiritualityKindnessMoralityAddictionLustBad Habits Author:Shunya
“Broken dreams transform a girl into a woman and a boy into a man.” LifeWisdomMotivationalSuccessLife QuotesLife PhilosophyFailures Author:Shunya
“When a free lion starts proving himself before the circus lions, he no longer remains free.” SpiritualityFreedomLife PhilosophyAwakeningLiberationParadoxGuru Author:Shunya
“Understand the difference between mystical art and mystical knowldge. Devotional music, life stories of mystics and gods, images, paintings etc. may temporarily transport you to mystical world but they can't give you mystical powers. Art is beautiful. Knowledge is boring. Ancient sages tried to mix art with knowledge. We discarded the knowledge but kept the art.” ArtWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeMysticismMysticVedanta Author:Shunya
“Those who accept a situation find a way to get out of it. Those who try to run away from it suffer like a fly trapped inside a net.” LifeWisdomSpiritualityPeaceAcceptanceNew Age Author:Shunya
“Ego is like a wall. It is impossible to keep it shining with colours of positivity. The mud and mess of negativity will also stick and spread on it.” LifeWisdomPositive ThinkingPrideEgoNegativity Author:Shunya
“In a village people were happy eating rice and vegetables. Then somebody started coming every morning to distribute sweets. Now villagers are happy only in the morning when they get sweets. Rest of the time they remain depressed. The sweets of hope and positivity and motivation being distributed everywhere are actually causing anxiety and depression.” MotivationSpiritualityHopePositive ThinkingPositivityDuality Author:Shunya
“When God sees that you have the potential to undertake an inward journey to reach Him, your outside world starts turning upside down.” GodSuccessFailureDisappointmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“Whether you disappoint someone or make them happy, in both cases you engage and occupy their mind. In both cases you give them what their mind craves for : any form of engagement.” MindWisdomRelationshipsPsychologyExpectationsDisappointment Author:Shunya
“If fire is giving you warmth, it doesn't mean that you should sit inside it. You can enjoy things as long as you keep an optimum distance from them.” LoveLifeWisdomSpiritualityRelationship Author:Shunya
“All toxic relationships feel like soulmate connections. A sign of toxic relationship is that you lose other people. You live to please just one person. You develop a new personality just for him/her. And that personality wants to be with him/her even after all the pain your soul goes through.” PsychologyRelationshipSoulmatesNarcissismToxic Relationships Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like an umbrella. You want me to come under it. How is that possible? I am the sky. Throw away the umbrella. Let me drench you.” PhilosophyGodReligionSpiritualityPsychologyRelationshipDivine Love Author:Shunya
“You are pure milk. If you pour yourself into a bowl which already has some water, the bowl will accuse you of being adulterated. You can’t prove your purity until the bowl drains out its water and closes the inlet.” LifePsychologyRelationship Author:Shunya
“Life throbbing in others touches the life throbbing in you. Ego in others invokes ego in you. Ignore their ego and see life.” LifeSpiritualityCompassionEgoDivinity Author:Shunya
“This world is an illusion." Only the awakened beings have the right to make this statement. They feel compassion for even a broken car because they can see God in everything. Other people may draw a completely negative meaning out of this statement.” CompassionIllusionHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“Deep down all souls are innocent but they're caught up in a ruthless game.” GodReligionCompassionBuddhismInnocenceHinduism Author:Shunya
“If you’re tired of the highs and lows of life, there is an ancient formula for attaining the balance. Your passion for things you like should not be higher or lower than your compassion for things you dislike. They should be equal. And you can’t make them equal until you raise your awareness and see things from a higher perspective.” LifeSpiritualityCompassionBuddhismHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“Give and take is the way of the world. But when you give something with compassion and take something with gratitude, you are away from the world and nearer to the supreme power.” ReligionFaithCompassionGratitudeDevotionHinduismGive And Take Author:Shunya
“Food habits may affect mind. But for connecting your soul to the power of nothingness, you have to detach both from the eater (your body-mind) and the eaten (your food). Compassion detaches you, but pride or guilt of having a particular food habit attaches you.” MindBodyCompassionVegetarianVeganNothingnessVegetarianismFood Habits Author:Shunya
“While being non-violent to others, don't start doing violence to your own self. That would be doing the same thing in reverse.” LifeSelfWisdomSpiritualityCompassionViolenceSelf Love Author:Shunya
“If everybody is jumping into the well and you're unable to do it, that will become your problem. That's the definition of problem for human mind: Being left out from what everyone else is doing.” MindPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySocietySolitudeProblemsRat Race Author:Shunya
“You avoid a path populated by hyenas. That's not your fear. That's your awareness of your surrounding. That's what makes you a living being.” MindFearPsychologyAwarenessFearless Author:Shunya
“Those who are living with a trauma always compare their present with their 'beautiful past' before trauma. To cope with the trauma, Your mind may have altered your memories and normalized the trauma. Recall it the way it happened. Write it down. Face it. And then let it fade properly.” MindPainPsychologyMental HealthTrauma Author:Shunya
“Suppose you have a question. You go to google. You get answer. It triggers another question. And it goes on and on. You start spending entire time on Google. You forget that there are many apps beyond google. It happens to many seekers. They abuse the functionality of questioning. They question everything except the phenomenon of questioning itself.” MindTruthSpiritualityPsychologyMental HealthSeekingDeepQuestionsAnswer Author:Shunya
“If someone is accusing you of being something, either you are that or you are a mirror in which they are seeing their own reflection.” MindPsychologyEgoProjectionPersonality Disorders Author:Shunya
“You can enjoy freedom only if you can exercise restraint. For example, you're free to enjoy sweets. But if you don't restrain yourself, you will soon be diabetic and won't be free to eat sweets.” LifeMindWisdomPsychologyYoga Author:Shunya
“Suppose you see a person in a secure and homely environment. You don't interact with them but your mind registers some feature of them. Then you see the same feature in a stranger in a strange environment. You will feel a sweet curiosity and attraction towards that stranger because they will give you secure and homely feeling at a strange place.” LoveMindHeartPsychologyAttractionSoulmate Author:Shunya
“We can forget our headache by self inflicting deeper pain in some other part of body. That is what anger is - A self inflicted pain to numb the hurt caused by others.” MindPainAngerInner Peace Author:Shunya
“Mirrors show exact reflection of you. What if there were a mirror that showed a different reflection than yourself? Imagine that Ram stands in front of the mirror and sees not Ram but Shyam in the mirror. “Maya” is the house of such mirrors. The people you see around you are just your different reflections. Some reflections are similar to you and others are completely different. If you try to change a reflection, you would end up banging your head against a mirror. Instead, change your position and angles. Don’t try to change people. Just change your distance and expectations from them.” LoveMindPhilosophyTruthSpiritualityRelationshipsIllusionExpectationsDetachment Author:Shunya