“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
“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
“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
“Glass and sand are made from the same material (silicon). Heroes and villains are cut from the same cloth. Don’t reject a hero just because he resembles a villain of your past.” LoveMindSoulBeliefPsychologySoulmatePrejudices Author:Shunya
“Outward spiritual pursuit” - This is an oxymoron but these days I see a lot of young men and women on “Outward spiritual pursuit”. Your mind can create an exact replica of everything your soul has to offer. It can make you feel like you are on spiritual path. But mind’s replica of solitude is depression. Mind’s replica of No-thingness (non-existence) is Nothing-ness (pessimistic outlook). Mind’s replica of Samadhi is suicide.” MindSoulTruthSpiritualityIllusionNothingnessInner Path Author:Shunya
“Leftist, Rightist, Centrist - Let your mind be what it wants to be. Just don’t lose the awareness that you are a soul and you have the freewill to detach from this mind.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismIdeologyHinduism Author:Shunya
“A child who has just learned alphabets can’t enjoy the story until she learns the meaning of the words. Life is a story. You can read it through worldly knowledge but you can’t enjoy it until you get the spiritual knowledge.” MindSoulWisdomSpiritualityInner SelfSpiritual Knowledge Author:Shunya
“Search the most weird thing on Google. You will find some people somewhere doing that thing. Your mind is even more advanced than Google. Whatever you want to believe, it can churn out logic to support that. Look at human history, most brilliant minds have died debating over their beliefs and no common conclusion has been reached so far. And it will never be reached. Mind is tricky machine that can complete any task that you assign it Give it the task of dissolving itself and it will dissolve itself with its own logic. Then you can experience the oneness - the Paramatma.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“If your one Rupee is pending with a shopkeeper, you would go to that shop again even if you have to spend 10 Rupees fuel. Same thing happens in relationships. If you have invested a few precious moments in someone, it becomes very difficult to leave. This is how Maya (Space-Time) keeps a soul attached birth after birth.” MindSoulRelationshipsPsychologyAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“You are travelling in a vehicle. Another vehicle is moving alongside yours. Sometimes your vehicle is ahead, sometimes that vehicle is ahead. Then comes the separation. That vehicle moves to a different route. You feel slightly heartbroken even though you didn’t even see who the occupants of that vehicle were. Why? Because you are a soul. You don’t have to stay attached to just your own body. You can get attached to any other entity and feel its emotions. When you are travelling in a vehicle, your soul starts feeling emotions of your vehicle. Your vehicle feels heartbroken, not you.” MindSoulSelfSpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismHinduismInner Self Author:Shunya
“Soul awakens when it stops identifying with the body+mind. But in many seekers their mind stops identifying with the body. That is a painful situation because they are neither here nor there. Society seems meaningless to them and awakening remains elusive to them.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNew AgeOld Soul Author:Shunya
“I am a soul." This thought may give relief to beginners. But as you advance on spiritual path, this thought creates a huge problem: Your mind splits into two. One part starts acting like a soul and says "I am a soul." And the soul remains asleep.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya
“Imagine a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces. There are a million ways in which it can be incomplete but there is only one way in which it is complete. Your mind thinks that it is a player with the mission to solve the puzzle of universe. The truth is that mind itself is the last piece of the puzzle. Surrender! Dissolve the mind and be one with the rest of the universe.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityUniverse Author:Shunya
“In a few decades, perhaps people will get attached to social media profiles just like you are attached to your body mind now. Then Gurus will have to remind them, “Profile is nothing but some pictures and data stored in servers owned by social media companies. You don’t own it. You just access it. Don’t bother about likes and followers. You are not a profile. you are a body-mind!” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismIllusionHinduismVedantaSpiritual KnowledgeSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“God, the world seen through the glasses of my limited understanding no longer interests me. I surrender my questions, my answers, my theories, my opinions, my beliefs. Fill me with awe. Overwhelm me with your wonders.” MindSoulGodFaithDevotionHinduismAdvaitaNon DualityHindu Author:Shunya
“Your body-mind is like a cup made of clay. If it is filled with feelings -- negative, positive, dark, light sweet, sour-- close your eyes and drink it. Your soul can drink even poison as though it’s nectar. Everything is blissful at soul level.” MindSoulFeelingsPainSufferingThoughtsEmotionsOverthinking Author:Shunya
“A bird is inside a moving car. He is flapping his wings and thinking that car is moving because of him. That is your life: Bird is your soul, car is your body-mind. You say, “There is no satisfaction in the journey.” Guru says, “Detach from the car.” But you panic as soon as you hear the word “detach”. It only means, fly above the car, not inside it.” MindSoulAwakeningHinduismDetachmentVedantaNon DualitySpiritual Knowledge Author:Shunya
“When you touch river Ganga in Rishikesh, you also touch the ocean to which the river is connected. Because the distinction between the river and ocean is just in your mind. You also touch the vapours rising from ocean, You touch clouds, rains, earth, mountains, You touch eternity. You touch God. Remove the distinctions, clean the mind. God is right here, right now.” MindSoulWholeGodSpiritualityUniverseAdvaitaDualityNon Duality Author:Shunya
“Life is like photography. At one point we realize that candid photography offers more “Perfect Moments” than stressfully trying to control everything to create such moments.” LifeMindSoulLife QuotesMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessControlLet GoMinimalism Author:Shunya
“Complicated situations start arising in life when you pretend to be someone you are not. The mother of all pretence is mind pretending as a soul. Mind says, "I am a soul. I am immortal but I am trapped in mortal world." The truth is that mind itself is the trap. When the soul wakes up, mind falls silent.” MindSoulSelfSpiritualityConflictAwakeningPretending Author:Shunya
“What happens after Moksha (liberation)? Moksha means free from Time. So, there is no after or before. Mind exists inside Time. It can never be free from Time, It asks such questions to keep you (soul) attached. It’s a toxic love story between you and your manipulative mind.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismBuddhaMokshaHindu Author:Shunya
“In ancient India, human being were simple. They would earn with their upper body (head and hands) and spend on their lower body (food, sex, travel). To break this circle and find God, technique was simple: Do fasting, abstain from sex and sit in a cave. Now you have a thousand such circles within your head. Techniques of body don’t work on you.” MindSoulReligionSpiritualitySolitudeHinduismFastingCelibacyAsceticism Author:Shunya
“Don’t make spirituality a part of your life. Let your life be a part of spirituality.” LifeMindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“The network of Time and Space is like a huge metro train network. The announcements on this train network are heard directly in our head in a personalized way. A voice in our head tells us who we are, where we are coming from, and where we have to go. It just keeps us moving within this network.” MindSoulSpiritualityEnlightenment Author:Shunya
“If you believe in magic, things will happen to you in magical way. If you’re logical, things will happen in logical way. Magic and Logic are two modes to play the game of life.” LifeMindSoulSpiritualityUniverseMagicLogicMiracle Author:Shunya
“There may be many tourist places in your city Tourists go inside them and explore. You see them from outside everyday. But you haven’t gone inside them and explored like a tourist. God is not far away from you. He is so near that you have created a mental distance from Him.” MindSoulGodReligionBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“In movies, they use exaggeration to stimulate your mind, Reverse is also true, When your mind is stimulated (by a sad or happy event), you start exaggerating things. Your problem is not as big as your mind makes you believe. To get real perspective, go out, take a walk. observe life around you.” LifeMindSoulSpiritualityPsychologyPerspectiveProblemsSolution Author:Shunya
“Your cook, who feeds real food to your body, lives in slums. Your politicians and celebrities, who feed controversies and drama to your mind, live in palaces. Introspect how big is the stomach of your mind & how much you’re indirectly paying to feed it.” MindSoulBodySpiritualityPoliticsSocietyBuddhismDrama Author:Shunya
“I don't know', 'Maybe', 'Perhaps' - If you have stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don't have beliefs. Beliefs have you.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“People don't have time to be evil. There is pettiness all around but not much evil.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionBuddhismZenSpirituality Vs Religion Author:Shunya
“There are 3 levels to play the game of life. In 1st level, you identify yourself with a group such as family, friend circle, fan group or a group based on ideology, geography, language etc. At this level, you play against the group which is against your group. In 2nd level, your identify with a body-mind and play against or with rest of the universe. In 3rd level, you identify yourself as nothing and play with everything as a whole. Nothing and everything are same. So 3rd level is not a play. It's Samadhi.” LifeMindSoulWholeBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“Past troubles those who divide it into two: Waste that must be disposed off and trophies that must be showcased. Things of the past are raw material for the future. If they are dirty, wash them with acceptance. If they are too bright, dip them into grace.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“There are people who fear XYZ. And then there are those who are obsessed with XYZ. These are two extremes. If you're on one extreme, get to know the other extreme. It will help you come to the middle where there is peace.” MindSoulSpiritualityFearBalanceObsessionMiddle Path Author:Shunya
“Silence is the background music that you can play anywhere and make any ambience your own.” MindSpiritualitySilenceMeditationZenNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like a device you are wearing. Play with it instead of being played by it. You can easily play with one setting of this device: Focus. Focus only when required. At home, you are relaxed. But your mind is narrowly focussed on TV, fridge, phone and bed. De-focus and take in the whole surrounding. Feel the air touching your skin. hear so many sounds reaching your ears, sit on the floor and see your room without focussing on particular objects.” MindSpiritualityFocusBuddhismZenNo ThoughtDefocus Author:Shunya
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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