“If the attempt to get rid of something is leading you towards more darkness, that thing has become your shadow. Just accept it. First it will stop bothering you, then it will stop affecting you, then it will stop existing for you.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismIndifferenceAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“It’s very lonely and sad feeling when you are the Big Box in a relationship. You can fit them but they can’t fit you. You can understand them but they can’t understand you. The ideal relationship is when one box is just slightly bigger than the other so that they fit like a glove fits in a hand. Then there is no room for insecurities and misunderstandings. Such a match doesn’t come ready-made. Both sides have to surrender to each other to fit into each other.” LifeRelationshipsTrustSurrenderMisunderstanding Author:Shunya
“Not just on body, we wear clothes on our mind too. Opinions and prejudices are like tightly stitched clothes. It’s OK if you wear them while dealing with the outside world. That too is not suggested for seekers. Faith and trust are like comfortable unstitched clothes. You must wear them inside home with loved ones.” LifeFaithPeaceRelationshipsTrustOpinionsJudgements Author:Shunya
“We keep clinging to unworthy and painful things just because we have invested our time and energy in them. Your time and energy is safely deposited in your Karmic account. Trust the universe and let go. Clear the space for things that you truly deserve.” LifeSpiritualityUniverseTrustLetting GoKarmaLaw Of Attraction Author:Shunya
“When there is full trust, communication is not required. And when there is no trust, communication is not possible. But we human beings can't live without communication. So we choose middle path. We get attracted towards people we can communicate with.” LoveLifeRelationshipsTrustCommunicationAttractionMiddle Path Author:Shunya
“In relationships, we first want to be understood and then we want to be discovered one layer at a time till eternity.” LoveLifeUnderstandingRelationshipsTrustSelf DiscoverySpirituality Quotes Author:Shunya
“Hope and fear conspire with each other to keep you running here and there whole life. Trust your inner lamp which shows you what you should be doing in the present. It will get you out of suffering very soon.” LifePurposeSpiritualityHopeFearTrustPresentHere And NowDirection Author:Shunya
“If it's not in your hand, it doesn't need to be in your hand. It's being taken care of in ways that your mind can't comprehend.” LifeWisdomReligionFaithUniverseTrustFutureAnxiety Author:Shunya
“Things go wrong with those who trust everyone except their own instincts, and with those who doubt everything except their own doubter mind.” LifeWisdomSpiritualityDoubtTrustHinduism Author:Shunya
“When two sides are accusing each other, it's very difficult to figure out the reality. Because reality is different for everyone. The difference is not just in mind. Things actually look different to different people. Two or more people can align or sync their realities if they trust each other. When trust is gone, their realities again become different. This is Samsara.” LifeWisdomBuddhismConflictWrongFightHinduismRightDualityAccusations Author:Shunya
“All sorts of people are doing all sorts of things all over the world. They all are right as per their own definition of right and wrong.” LifePhilosophyReligionBeliefWrongRight Author:Shunya
“You become free and fearless when you realize that all are equally clueless about life, be it old or young, rich or poor, king or servant, educated or uneducated...” LifeWisdomSpiritualityCourageConfidenceFearlessnessShunya Author:Shunya
“If you are in a prison, either break out of it at all costs or accept it without complaints. Both options need immense strength and both will set you free. But if you are just sitting and complaining about it, you are reinforcing it.” LifeFreedomStrengthKarmaCompulsionBandage Author:Shunya
“Mentally strong people are like a dam on a river. Life keeps on overwhelming them with burdens. If you're tired of being a dam, just let go! Water will find its way.” LifeStrengthBuddhismBurdenReliefProblemsHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“If you're feeling depressed or anxious, throw away your phone, get out of the room, and lie down on your back under the open sky. Not on a mat. Disappear in grass, collapse on stone or shatter in soil. Withdraw from the human circus and merge back with the universe.” LifePainWorryPsychologyDepressionAnxietyHeartbreak Author:Shunya
“If you were living in somebody’s heart but now feeling like a tenant, accept the reality immediately. The landlord or landlady is now looking for excuses to evict you.” LoveLifePainRelationshipHeartbreakBreakup Author:Shunya
“When people stop being the way they were, your mind starts increasing the spices to compensate for the loss of ingredients. Our eyes open only when it’s too late... when ingredients completely disappear and our own spices is all that is left.” LoveLifeWisdomSpiritualityLife QuotesRelationshipsHeartbreak Author:Shunya
“When people need a reason to go, they turn the blame on you. When the rain of love turns into arrows of blame, throw away the umbrella and take up the shield.” LoveLifeWisdomRelationshipsHeartbreakBreakup Author:Shunya
“Sunrise and sunset are beautiful moments but you can't hold them. Let things move. There will be more sunrises and sunsets.” LoveLifeSpiritualityHeartbreakAttachmentNew BeginningsDetachmentPossessiveness Author:Shunya
“If you can take apart a machine and assemble it back again, you have mastered that machine. If you have fallen apart and pulled yourself back together, you have mastered yourself.” LifePainSufferingSpiritualityHeartbreakTransformation Author:Shunya
“If you are allowing someone to lift you up with praise and compliments, you are giving them power to throw you down with blame and insults.” LifeSpiritualityRelationshipsSelf EsteemHeartbreakDignity Author:Shunya
“There was a sage who was expert in herbal medicines. With great difficulty he once procured a rare seed which, as per his intuition, could cure any disease. He planted the seed. After 12 years of extreme hardwork, the tree yielded nothing but poisonous fruits. How could he let go of 12 years of investment? So he started nurturing the tree more and more in hope of turning it into the elixir it was supposed to be. The poison of tree started entering into his blood now. He was about to die. Luckily a disciple came to visit him and destroyed the tree. A couple of years later, during a casual walk into jungle, he found a full grown tree with fruits that could cure any disease. Let go of relationships or projects that turned out to be poisonous or dead. Your investment will come back to you in the form of luck.” LifeSpiritualityRelationshipsHeartbreakLuckFortuneSeparationAttachment Author:Shunya
“Pain multiplies when you try to go away from it. Be with it until it goes away from you.” LifeMindSoulWisdomBodyPainHeartbreakHeartacheKnowldge Author:Shunya
“Movies, travel, restaurant etc are pleasure for you because they help you escape your routine life. Imagine the pain of people who have so much money that all this has become routine and unexciting for them. Addiction is the only thing left for them to escape the routine... addiction to money, sex, political power and substances .” LifeWisdomPainPleasureAddictionRoutineRelativity Author:Shunya
“You want to spend your day like an emperor and then sleep deeply like a labourer. That’s not possible in this world of dualities. Here definition of pleasure is relief from pain. Eternal bliss is found when you detach from both.” LifePainReligionSpiritualityPleasureBuddhismBlissDuality Author:Shunya
“Pain and pleasure are the same energy inside you. When it flows at a slow rate like sunlight in a morning winter, it's pleasure. When the flow rate goes beyond a threshold, it's pain.” LifePainSpiritualityEnergyPleasureBuddhismHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Desires set the direction of your life. As soon as you desire to go to Paris, the car of your life changes its direction towards Paris. Due to lack of fuel (Karma), you may not reach Paris but you may reach some good or bad place which is in that direction.” LifeDesirePurposeSpiritualityWishGoalKarma Author:Shunya
“Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyPainReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“When we like something too much, a part of us wants to keep them forever in our 'wishlist' because we know that when wishes comes true, they lose their charm.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyPainReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“If you are OK being dishonest, circumstances will squeeze you so much that you will have no other option but to be dishonest. If you are not OK being dishonest, circumstances will allow you to stay honest.” LifeWisdomUniverseHonestyDishonesty Author:Shunya
“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point." But for people, drama is the point. A point is useless to them if it doesn't provide drama.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“Relationship between two individuals can't have any problem. But individuals are rare to find. Most people have a whole crowd living in their head. Relationship between two crowds is bound to have problems.” LoveLifeWisdomRelationshipsSolitudeIndividuality Author:Shunya
“An embroidery machine has to do chaotic motions to create beautiful patterns. Chaos in life means that creation of something beautiful is in progress.” LifeSpiritualityPassionCreativityChaos Author:Shunya
“You are a golden bird inside a wooden cage. Red roses will only fill your cage with fragrance for a while. Red hot embers will burn your cage and set you free forever.” LoveLifeInspirationalSpiritualityPassionDangerComfort Zone Author:Shunya
“First they declare something as evil. Then they criticize it day and night to show themselves in good light. Because being actually good is difficult, weak minds have devised this easy method to feel that they are good.” LifeSpiritualityEvilSocietyGood Author:Shunya
“I like this, I dislike that. He is good, she is evil.' This black and white approach towards life gives us very low quality experiences. To make up for the quality, we run after quantity. We seek more and more dramas everywhere be it home, office, road, TV, news media.” LifePhilosophySpiritualityEvilBuddhismGoodDualityExperiences Author:Shunya
“Sadness comes like dark clouds and goes away. It turns into depression if we consider it as a bad thing and become sad that we are sad.” LifeSpiritualityPsychologySadnessDepression Author:Shunya
“We notice our own quality when we see lack of it in someone else. Others work like mirrors for us in various ways.” PeopleLifePhilosophyReligionSpiritualityKarma Author:Shunya
“Only love can handle honesty, not attachment. Hence love is free from lies while attachment is the breeding ground of lies.” LoveLifeMindHeartTruthRelationshipsPsychologyLiesAttachment Author:Shunya
“You will get love and respect from others when you stop craving for it.” LoveLifeSpiritualitySelf LoveRespectDignitySelf Respect Author:Shunya
“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.” LifePhilosophyWisdomSpiritualityPsychologyPrideSelf Deception Author:Shunya
“I am silent at your argument because I see what you see and much more that you don't see.” LifeSilencePerspectiveArgumentLogicReasoningBroad Mindedness Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeWisdomChangeSilenceAngerNonviolence Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismSolitudeZen Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismArgumentZenHinduismNon Violence Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeSpiritualityPeaceSilenceMindfulness Author:Shunya
“Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismZenNothingness Author:Shunya
“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.” LoveLifeRomanceSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismWordsNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Life is a silent movie. Society gives you subtitles (thoughts and words) which ruin the whole movie.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceSocietyBuddhismZane Author:Shunya