“Two enemies try to destroy each other so that only one of them remains. Two lovers also want to become one unit. This whole circus is happening because we are trying to 'create' oneness instead of trying to realize that we are already one.” LoveSpiritualityUniverseEnlightenmentOnenessEnemiesRealisation Author:Shunya
“Young Shani Deva was extremely attached to his mother. She became fatally Ill. To get a cure for her, he decided to climb mount Kailash and meet the supreme God. To climb higher and higher, he had to let go of all his baggages, including the baggage of attachment to mother. Then two things happened at the same time: God met him and his mother got cured. Attachment harms our loved ones, love heals them.” LoveGodUniverseBuddhismAttachmentHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“If two types of attachments are pulling you in two opposite direction and you're not able to decide which way to go, take a break from both attachments. Conflict will automatically resolve. A few months of solitude can save you from lifetime of complications.” LoveLifeSpiritualitySolitudeAttachmentDetachmentDilemma Author:Shunya
“Two horses stand before you. One is domesticated, meek, and loyal. The other is wild, bold and fickle. You feel attracted towards the wild one. And then you complain why it is not loyal!” LoveRelationshipsEmotionsAttractionLoyalty Author:Shunya
“Any intense relationship, be it of love or hate, displaces you from your body-mind. Everything becomes about that person. When they are gone, you feel lost.” LoveLifePainSpiritualityRelationshipsSeparation Author:Shunya
“World has become a market. In a market, things that don't sell disappear. Love doesn't sell, sympathy sells. Love has disappeared, sympathy is all that is left. We either play victim to get sympathy or we search for victims to give sympathy.” LovePhilosophyPsychologySocietySympathyConsumerism Author:Shunya
“People harm themselves and their own children to protect their social image. Like your children, image is also your creation. More you care about it, more it becomes alive. It starts speaking in your head. It can make you do anything.” LoveLifeSpiritualityFamilySocietyImage Author:Shunya
“You feel like an idol kept in an art gallery. You think that everyone who comes near you is just interested in your outer appearance. I see the divinity in you. Let me worship you.” LoveRomanceSexDivine Love Author:Shunya
“Things that are too perfect for us don't attract us. They are like a slippery floor having no friction at all. We desire some friction... some flaws... something to work upon.” LoveSexRelationshipsPerfectionAttractionFlaws Author:Shunya
“After gaining spiritual depth, you will not try to show others something you are not. You will just be yourself. Without gaining spiritual depth, even if you are “Being Yourself”, you are just showing others that you are “Being Yourself.” LoveLifeSpiritualitySelf LoveBe Yourself Author:Shunya
“When you love yourself as you are, others start loving you. But to love yourself as you are, first you have to stop craving for love from others.” LoveSpiritualityConfidenceSelf LoveHealCraving Author:Shunya
“Attachment hurts you, detachment heals you back. At the end of the cycle, you are no longer the same person. This entire cyclic process is love. It evolves you. Attachment alone is not love.” LovePainHurtTransformationAttachment Author:Shunya
“If you are arguing with somebody, the root of that argument lies in an inner wound that person gave you. You can’t show that wound because of the fear of being judged or labelled. So, you create an outer wound at some small thing and start arguing in the hope of rubbing some ice to your inner wound. This leads to more wounds - inner and outer.” LoveMindSoulPainPeaceRelationshipsHurtPsychology Author:Shunya
“We fall in mad love and mad hatred with our fantasies, not with real people. No real person deserves mad love and mad hatred.” LoveLifeWisdomHateSpiritualityRelationshipsHatred Author:Shunya
“Love is a spontaneous energy. You can't forcefully direct it towards someone. Marriage is an odd mixture of love and duty. Many married couples say that love has vanished between them; they are in it only to fulfill duty. But they keep quarrelling. Because love energy doesn't vanish. It changes its form and becomes bitterness, anger, hate etc.” LoveHateMarriageSocietyDutyDivorceBreakup Author:Shunya
“Love and hate both are attachments. If you love apple and hate orange, life will give you such a hybrid of apple and orange that you will neither be able to eat it nor throw it. So, don’t let your dislikes turn into hate.” LoveLifeMindSoulHateSpiritualityLife QuotesAttachment Author:Shunya
“Opposite of love is attachment, not hate. Hate is an explicit form of attachment. Love takes you towards freedom, attachment binds you more and more.” LoveHateSpiritualityFreedomBuddhismLiberationAttachmentHinduismTantra Author:Shunya
“A chemical may react with some chemicals and remain indifferent to others. Similarly we get attached to some people (positively or negatively) and remain indifferent to others. Attachment is not love. Love makes you realize that you are something more than an organism, more than a body-mind.” LoveHateSpiritualityBuddhismSelf RealizationAttachmentHinduismDivine Love Author:Shunya
“Voices of head and heart should be independent. If your head sees benefit in someone, don’t let your heart create false liking for that person. And if your heart likes a person, don’t let your mind create false arguments to justify the liking.” LoveMindHeartHateThoughtsAttractionLikeHead Author:Shunya
“Love and hate are two forms of the same energy. As soon as you close the outlet of love for someone, the outlet of hate opens up. Both outlets have to be closed if you don't want to deplete your energy on someone.” LoveLifeHateEnergyBuddhismZenHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“If you need to tell lies to hide something from someone, it’s attachment, not love. By telling lies you are creating a different world in which events have happened as per your lies. That’s why lies tear apart two souls. Attachment makes you lie because it only cares for body-mind, not soul.” LoveLifeSoulTruthHateSpiritualityLiesMind Relationships Author:Shunya
“I forgive you.’ This statement suggests attachment. If you have forgiven someone to close their chapter from your life, you won’t feel the need of saying it to them. They will just stop existing for you.” LoveHateRelationshipForgivenessAttachmentDetachmentClosure Author:Shunya
“Turn off the sound and watch a slap scene in a movie. Even if the gap between hand and check remains one feet, sound effect makes you feel that slap is real. When the picture is incomplete, your mind fills in your own colours in the gaps. If you are madly in love with someone, you will believe their most absurd lies. If you hate someone, you won’t even believe absolute truths told by them.” LoveMindTruthHateSpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismLiesHinduism Author:Shunya
“When a fruit becomes ripe and separates from the tree, that is a proper ending of relationship. But human relationships rarely have such ending. That’s why there is always an urge to re-start the relationship, just to have a proper ending.” LoveMindHateRelationshipsPsychologyHeartbreakBreak Up Author:Shunya
“Her child has been taken away from her, Her breasts are overflowing with milk. So she feeds the orphans. Tears are flowing from her eyes. She is happy to help the orphans but there is a pain and guilt that the milk which was for her child is being consumed by others.” LovePainSufferingHateCompulsion Author:Shunya
“On this giant theatre stage, everybody is in character. There are just characters interacting with characters to enact stories. You will rarely see a bare soul. Even monks are just playing holy characters.” LoveLifeSoulGodSpiritualityPeaceEternityDivine Love Author:Shunya
“A Guru and disciple were passing through a street where they saw a cow being harassed by barking dogs. Disciple said, "What has happened to this world? Peace loving people are being harassed by noisy people." Guru said, "Both cow and dogs are behaving as per their nature. I would worry about the world when cow also starts behaving like dogs in reaction.” LovePhilosophySpiritualityPeaceCompassionBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Born as a presence, trained as a person, you are. Forget your training, you will, in one magical moment of love.” LovePhilosophySpiritualityPeaceDivine LoveStar Wars Author:Shunya
“It is one thing to look into someone's eyes while talking. It is completely another thing to look into them in silence. When there is silence inside and outside you, look into your deity's eyes. You will get pulled into them and never come out.” LoveGodReligionPeaceDevotion Author:Shunya
“A glass of water is holding water. But empty glass is not holding emptiness. Neither emptiness is holding the glass. Both are free and yet they are into each other. This is divine love. No attachment, only pure love.” LoveRomanceSpiritualityPeaceAwakeningDivine LoveDetachment Author:Shunya
“Kindness often comes from a guilt-ridden mind, compassion comes from an aware soul. Kindness is selective, compassion is for all. For example, kind people often take care of dogs and cats but create nuisance for their fellow human beings. They often believe in a world without borders but become a tool in the hands of one country to harm another country.” LoveSpiritualityCompassionKindnessSocietyActivism Author:Shunya