“Fall in love with the whole universe, not just the portions that your mind considers important. Mind may run towards the light bulb but the switch is often found away from the bulb.” LifeMindProblemWisdomSpiritualityUniverseGoalsSolution Author:Shunya
“If somebody has already made up their mind, advising them against it is counter productive. More you oppose, more they defend it and more blind they become about it.” MindWisdomRelationshipsPsychologyAdvice Author:Shunya
“When we want to like someone, our mind gives their negative points a positive spin. When we want to dislike someone, mind gives their positive points a negative spin. Watch the mind!” LifeMindSpiritualityPsychologyRelationships Quotes Author:Shunya
“How much more pain is required for you to stop bothering about everything and be free, absolutely free?” LifePainFreedomPsychologyAnxietyStressTragedy Author:Shunya
“Nobody knows who we are and what we are doing in this little corner of the infinite cosmos. Don't take anything too seriously. Relax!” PsychologyAnxietyStressMental Health Author:Shunya
“It's easy to say forget and forgive. You can completely forget and forgive only when you reach at your destination and look back and see that it all happened for good.” PainHealingPsychologyForgivenessStressTrauma Author:Shunya
“Your spiritual journey won't be all nice and flowery. Your inner demons will come to the surface and make you feel terrible before leaving you permanently.” PhilosophySpiritualityStressMental HealthNew AgeSexual Energy Author:Shunya
“For those who live in the body, death is the biggest fear. For those who live in the mind, there are much bigger fears than death; There are moments when death almost feels like a relief.” DeathFearPsychologyAnxietyStressTrauma Author:Shunya
“When you feel depressed, you tend to look down. Look up at the point where earthly objects meet the sky. You will feel powerful because everything within this point is your reality. You are its creator. Everything else is just shadows dancing in your head.” SpiritualityPsychologyDepressionStressMental HealthNew AgeHere And Now Author:Shunya
“When you're depressed, you don't feel like taking a bath or cleaning the room. But you feel good after doing it. Same with meditation. You must do it when you don't feel like doing it.” PsychologyMeditationAnxietyMindfulnessStressNew Age Author:Shunya
“Nobody understands you. Even you don't understand yourself. You are suffering because you are trying to fit into known categories, labels and structures.” SpiritualityPsychologySelf LoveAnxietyStress Author:Shunya
“If you're feeling low, take it as a cloudy day. There shall be rain and a new level of clarity shall emerge.” FeelingsInspirationMotivationalPsychologyDepressionStress Author:Shunya
“So much stress! I am a victim of city lifestyle. Life is so good in villages." Playing victim like this is a mechanism of mind to get some relief. "My sister-in-law doesn't respect me." This thought can cause so much stress to a village woman that she may go into depression and ultimately be 'possessed by ghosts.' Stress is equal in villages, if not more.” SpiritualityDepressionMindfulnessStressMental Health Author:Shunya
“It's easy for a preacher to say 'Let Go'. Imagine a king who wants to let go of his power because it's giving him nothing but stress and anxiety. If he lets go of it, his enemies will kill him. He has to first let go of his own body-mind. Then right circumstances will form and his body-mind will be able let go of power safely. You have to let go of things spiritually before you can let go of them physically.” SpiritualityBuddhismLetting GoAnxietyStressHinduism Author:Shunya
“Living in the present doesn't mean rebelling against the warnings coming from future. A moment is truly a present moment only if it is in harmony with the past and future.” WorryFutureHarmonyCarpe DiemLiving In The Present Author:Shunya
“People can't have an opinion about you. Because you're nothingness. They have opinion about the body-mind you're wearing. That's understandable. If you're wearing blue and somebody doesn't like blue, that's totally fine.” SpiritualityOpinionWorrySocietyConfidenceNothingnessOpinions Of OthersShunya Author:Shunya
“If you declare dust as your enemy, you will guard your house 24×7 with a mop in hand. You won't be able to live in your own house peacefully. Dust is just a phenomenon which should be given attention only when required.” SpiritualityLife QuotesWorryFutureAnxietyWorries Author:Shunya
“The swords hanging at your head are keeping you in fear 24×7. Let them fall. They will only cut the artificial heads given to you by society. Your original head will stay unharmed. You will become free and fearless.” SpiritualityFearFreedomWorrySocietyFearlessness Author:Shunya
“Your life is being written by the pencil of “Time” on the paper of “Space”. When you get the Eraser of Supreme Knowledge, you neither get bothered by what has been written in the past, nor worry about what is going to be written in the future.” TimeSpiritualitySpaceWorryRegretSupreme Knowledge Author:Shunya
“Astrology. Past life, Psychology : There can be different explanations of the same problem. They just help you see that you are inside a loop. Next step should be to distance yourself from what is inside the loop (body-mind) and realize your true self which is already outside the loop.” LifePainSufferingPsychologyEnlightenmentAwakeningKarmaAstrologyPast Life Author:Shunya
“Some things and people may be giving you pain. But you can't let go of them because the void that will be left behind is even more painful.” PainSufferingSpiritualityRelationshipsLetting Go Author:Shunya
“When you collapse, shatter, completely fall apart, and have no power left to even pray or hope, you will find yourself sitting in the lap of Supreme Power. Until then you will keep chasing illusions.” GodTruthPainSufferingHopePrayerAwakeningSupreme Power Author:Shunya
“You are suffering from yourself. Others are just a symptom.” LifePainSufferingBuddhismEgoMiseryKarmaHinduism Author:Shunya
“Wounds only attract flies. Pain attracts more dark and negative energies. But deep inside you, the sun of humility rises. Dwell there as long as you can. Because that’s where prayer happens. That’s where the divine energies come and bring about a miraculous healing.” LifePainReligionSufferingHumilityDivineWoundsHinduism Author:Shunya
“Expectations are like tall buildings with no stairs or elevators. People pelt you into high floors but there is no way to come down. You try to keep living there and suffer.” LifeSufferingSpiritualityFreedomPromiseExpectations Author:Shunya
“More you give care to others, more receptive you should be to receive care from others. Flow should be equal both ways. Unequal flow is a sign of emotional blockages and sickness.” LoveWisdomCareEnergyRelationshipsSelf Love Author:Shunya
“You are just chilling... lost in your thoughts. A question comes to you with a tone of care and love, “why are you upset?” Even though you are not upset, you actually become upset just to get that sympathy and care. This is a sad truth. You have to be unwell and upset in order to get care and love. So mind keeps searching for reasons to be upset. Even body starts falling sick in hope of getting care and love. Body starts ageing. Perhaps abundance of love can make one immortal.” LoveLifeCareSpiritualityRelationships Author:Shunya
“If you don't have medicine for a wound, leave it alone; Perhaps it will heal by itself. What are you trying to achieve by poking it again and again?” HeartHealingFamilyPsychologyEmotionsProblemsWound Author:Shunya
“When was the last time somebody looked at you? People are just coming before your eyes and saying their dialogues. They are not looking at you. When someone really looks at you, you will feel that you exist.” LoveHeartSoulSpiritualitySoulmate Author:Shunya
“Sensuality alone is just raw electricity in the body. If channelized through heart, it takes form of love. Otherwise it leaks out as lust and perversion.” LoveHeartSexRelationshipsLustSensuality Author:Shunya
“When someone doesn't have what you have, their heart fills with admiration and head with envy. Their heart wants them to become closer to you and their head wants them to become like you.” HeartWisdomRelationshipsEmotionsEnvyGoalsAdmirationHead Author:Shunya
“As long as you have some power left in you, you will use it to complain, to cry, to spin logic, to harm your body. When you become completely powerless and helpless, you will discover the infinite power in you.” GodPainSpiritualityInfiniteHinduismHelplessness Author:Shunya
“Know yourself and you will know God. Are you a body, a mind, a soul or something else or nothing? Can you be anything you want to be or you are already everything you want to be?” SelfGodHinduismInner SelfVedantaWho Am I Author:Shunya
“When you feel secure, you can be the best version of yourself. Insecurity brings out the worst version of you.” LoveSelfRelationshipsSecurityInsecurity Author:Shunya
“A student asks, "Sir, if you're enlightened, why are you stuck in this body?" Guru replies, "This body is a drop in the ocean. I am the ocean, not a drop. Since you identify yourself as a drop, you only see drops around you.” SelfPhilosophySpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningHinduismNondualityAdvaitavad Author:Shunya
“Imagine people sitting around fire under a starry sky and wondering who we are and where we have come from. But instead we sit in drawing rooms and make statements: "I am so and so, my son is so and so, my god is so and so, my holy book is so and so." If you have already assumed an identity, how will you know who you really are?” SelfPhilosophySpiritualityWonderBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“If there is a diamond hidden in some drawer at your home, perhaps you won’t notice until next festive cleaning. If it’s in a hotel room. you will find it immediately after check-in. You are in the illusion that your body, family. home, office etc. are yours. Because of this illusion of ownership, you are missing so many diamonds that God has given you. See everything from the eyes of a guest, not owner.” SelfGodTruthSpiritualityGratitudeMindfulnessIllusionDetachment Author:Shunya
“You are one with the universe. When you try to create an identity separate from the universe, you feel small and insignificant. Then starts the struggle to avoid that feeling. Then you try to pump up that separate identity (ego) through illusions of money, power and status.” SelfPhilosophySpiritualityPowerPsychologyEgoIllusions Author:Shunya
“For society, you are not even a human; you are just a trained manpower. For them, you can “Rest in Peace” only after death. That too is a lie. To discover the eternal peace inside you, you have to walk alone.” TruthDeathSpiritualityIndividualPeaceSocietyLonelinessInner PeaceAloneness Author:Shunya
“Bananas come in a bunch. So a single banana is the most ignored thing in a fruit shop. Apples come alone. They are liked alone as well as in a group. You were born alone like an apple. You fear being alone because society has programmed you to feel like a banana.” ReligionSpiritualitySocietyLonelinessAloneSolution Author:Shunya
“To be yourself, you have to be behind closed doors. Outside you are just playing different roles. It's ironic that to free yourself from the prison of society, you have to lock yourself inside a room.” SpiritualitySocietyLonelinessSelf LoveSolitudeAwakeningBe Yourself Author:Shunya
“Continuous rains flooded a village. It seemed that everyone will drown. A priest lived in a hill temple nearby. He was getting pleasure in this destruction. He was gleefully wishing, 'May all the sinners die.' A cloud burst on the hill. He died. Villagers remained safe. Perhaps his wish came true.” ReligionSpiritualityBeliefSinSinnerOrthodoxy Author:Shunya
“All your past Karma get cleaned in just one moment of realization, the realization that you are not the doer. You didn’t do any of it. You just got attached to the doer; you just copied the doer’s Karma on your Pen Drive. The whole data can be cleaned in an instant of realization.” SpiritualitySinBuddhismEnlightenmentKarmaRealizationProblemsHinduism Author:Shunya
“The river that washes all your sins is flowing inside you. Every time you go inward and take a dip into the river of nothingness, a new version of you emerges out of it.” SpiritSinDestinyVirtueSelf LoveKarmaDivinityHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“Obviously, living beings are prejudiced against death. They can't take death of someone as easily as birth of someone.” PhilosophyDeathReligionSpiritualityGriefBirth Author:Shunya
“When someone intentionally deprives you of something, your dignity is crushed and you feel worthless. It's one of the dirtiest feelings.” FeelingsPsychologySelf EsteemConfidenceDignityHuman Behavior Author:Shunya
“If a ball doesn't move the way they expect, physicists would be disappointed with their theory of gravitation, not with the ball. When people don't behave the way we expect, we should be disappointed with our theories about people, not people. Human beings are not dead things. Let's stop trying to conform each other to our theories about each other.” LifeSpiritualityHopeRelationshipsExpectationsDignityControlling Author:Shunya
“Freedom of soul translates into power of body-mind. To free the soul from Karmic burdens, you should first know what is Karma and What is soul? Why does soul record everything body-mind does? Is there a way to stop it from doing so? Is there a way to erase everything it has recorded?” LifeHappinessDeathSpiritualityHealthKarmaShunya Author:Shunya
“When compulsions make you keep doing something against your will, don’t be frustrated with others. Just observe the helplessness of your own physical self and ultimately detach from it.” SpiritualityBuddhismInner PeaceInner Self Author:Shunya
“Sacrifice your ego for inner peace.” PsychologyEgoAngerInner PeaceInner SelfAnger Management Author:Shunya