“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
“Those who act from their heart feel that everyone acts from their hearts. Those who act from their head believe that everyone acts from their heads.” MindHeartPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySelflessnessHead Author:Shunya
“In stress, we consume too much food and information. Opposite is also true. When you consume too much information, you get stressed.” MindSpiritualityPsychologyInner Peace Author:Shunya
“You don't value things that easily come to you. You value things that are hard to get. You keep running after them and complain, "Why are things I desire hard to get?” LifeMindSpiritualityStrugglePsychologyBuddhismParadoxHinduism Author:Shunya
“Problems are like traffic jams. They clear up if you wait patiently. But instead of waiting for solution, you start seeking solace in two ways: (1) You target those who you think are cause of your problems (2) You target yourself. As a result problems sink their roots deep into your mind. ॐ” LifeMindPhilosophyMotivationReligionSpiritualityPsychologyProblemsSolution Author:Shunya
“Suppose you have 2L of nectar and you want a vessel to keep it. There is a golden vessel of 1L capacity and there is a steel vessel of 2L capacity. If your mind were free, you would choose the steel vessel and be happy. But your mind is conditioned to believe that gold is better than steel. So none of the vessels will make you happy. Steel one will make you feel inferior and gold one can't contain all of your nectar.” MindSpiritualityFreedomSocietyConditioning Author:Shunya
“Suppose a song is playing on your phone. If you use an earphone, it will feel like the song is playing in your head. Similarly, your mind is not in your head. Mind is an invisible body which is at a distance from your physical body, but it is connected to your head through a cord. If you disturb this cord, you can have “out of the body experiences”. You can see your own body from outside you.” MindSoulSpiritualityMysteryOccult Author:Shunya
“Your body gets hungry or thirsty. Your mind says, “I know this sensation. Now body will start looking for food or water. This is normal.” If your body gets some unknown sensation. Your mind freaks out because it doesn’t know what that sensation is for. It becomes anxious and fearful. Shut your mind. Allow your body to fulfill that sensation freely. Maybe it just wants to watch the clouds or go for a walk.” MindSoulBodySpiritualityUnknown Author:Shunya
“A man called Mr. Mind died. His wife Mrs. Soul was in the process of transferring all his property papers in her name. Then she came across his death certificate. She said to her lawyer, “I want all his papers in my name and this paper also belongs to him. Transfer it in my name.” Lawyer did that. Now she was also legally dead! She could no longer claim her husband’s properties. She was absolutely nothing now. This is the last step in spiritual journey. The concept of soul has to die so that only the soul remains. The concept belongs to the mind. If you don’t let go of it, you are still attached to the mind.” MindSoulSpiritualityHinduismVedantaNon Duality Author:Shunya
“Mind is like a wild horse that either runs after something or runs away from something. You are not the mind. You are the rider sitting still.” MindSoulSpiritualityPeaceHinduismStillnessDualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“This morning, did you wake up in the same body in which you slept last night? Maybe you slept in the body of Ram and woke up in the body of Shyam. Now you think you are Shyam because you have taken up memories and everything that belongs to Shyam. Maybe you take a new body everyday. Rejoice! It's a new day and a new life!” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityMysteryMysticismOccult Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like a bell hanging outside a temple. It reacts to everything and gives sounds like “That is wrong” “That is right” “I like it” “I disagree.” Let it ring. Let it react. Leave it where it is and go inside the temple. Detach from the mind to enter your inner temple.” MindSoulReligionSpiritualityBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Notice the small letter “a”. The typed “a” is different from what you write with pen on paper. This difference doesn't bother you at all. Mind can adapt to anything. It can even learn to read 'cow' as 'elephant'.” MindPhilosophyPsychology Author:Shunya
“Decades ago, when cars became a thing, people started imagining about flying cars. They never imagined about internet and smartphones. We extrapolate what we already know. If we know about cars, we imagine about flying cars.” LifeMindSpiritualityDiscoveryInsightIntuitionUnknown Author:Shunya
“Calm mind is not a requirement for meditation. It is the result of meditation. Don’t try to calm your mind. Let the mind be what it is so that you can be who you are: the soul, the witness.” MindPeaceMeditationMindfulness Author:Shunya
“Your mind is a great lawyer. It can defend as well as prosecute your beliefs. Sadly, you use its services only as a defense lawyer and the outside world automatically becomes the prosecutor. Challenge your beliefs yourself. Be your own prosecutor.” MindPsychologyAwarenessNothingnessBeliefsNew AgeBelief System Author:Shunya
“If you are searching for keys and you assume that the keychain is green, your mind will ignore everything except green. If the keychain is red, you won’t be able to find the Keys even if they are right before your eyes. If you are searching for a solution and you assume that it is difficult, your mind will ignore the easy solutions. Don’t assume. Biggest problems often have the easiest solutions.” LifeMindPsychologyProblemsAssumptions Author:Shunya
“If you have labelled someone as good or bad, you have created a wall between them and you.” LoveMindPsychologyGoodIntimacyBadMental Defence Author:Shunya
“If there are two people in the room and one of them has already decided to be the perpetual victim, the other person will automatically become the oppressor for the outsiders. If you are stuck with a person who is infected with perpetual victimhood, no matter how much you try to help them, you will always be projected as the oppressor.” MindSpiritualityPsychologyVictimhood Author:Shunya
“You lock your house and go out for a week. When you return, everything seems strange inside the house. The house grows in your absence! Everything in the universe is sitting on Time and continuously growing, with or without you. You are working hard on a problem, trying to conceive a solution. Don’t make it an ego issue. Let it alone for some time. Let it grow without you. Let it conceive without you. When you return to it, you will be pleasantly surprised to find the solution curled beside it like a baby. 30” LifeInspirationalMindMotivationalObstaclesProblems Author:Shunya
“The knowledge a student seeks is already inside the school bag she carries. She goes to school to transfer that knowledge inside her mind. At the end of the year, the entire bag is supposed to become part of her mind. Your ideas and beliefs about God are like a school bag you carry around. They are supposed to burn and become an integral part of you. Don’t fall in love with the bag. It is supposed to go.” MindSpiritualityMindfulnessEnlightenmentStillnessNothingnessNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Imagine you have to choose something out of ten options and you have very little time. You will choose what is best for you. But if you have a lot of time, you will set aside the best option and try other options. This is the trick of Time. Subconsciously, we are assured that we have a lot of time. So the best option doesn’t seem attractive to us. We ignore it. Other options give us more kick. They seem more attractive. That is why most of us fall into wrong relationships. And the rest of us get rejected by those for whom we were the best option.” LoveMindPhilosophyChoicesSpiritualityRelationshipsPsychology Author:Shunya
“Sometimes you don’t like the price of a product in a store. You want to walk out immediately but you pretend to be interested. Sometimes you don’t like where conversation is going. You want to stop immediately but you pretend to be interested. You are doing it so as not to hurt them. You are doing it all for them. Actually you are doing charity but you also feel emotionally robbed afterwards. It creates confusion for your soul. Should it copy the good Karma of charity, or bad Karma arising out of emotional robbery? Avoid this confusion. Feel good after doing this charity.” MindPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySocietyCharitySensitivity Author:Shunya
“When you see something happening for 10 times, you expect it to happen 11th times also. If it happens, you feel “normal”. If it doesn’t, you get either disappointment or pleasant surprise. So, expectations are like 3D glasses that make you experience Maya with a new range of emotions. But don’t keep these glasses on 24x7, otherwise you will forget what your loved ones originally look like. Similarly, if you are caught up with a loved one who wears these glasses 24x7, try to preserve your originality not only for yourself but also for them so that they find you original and whole when they let go of those glasses (hopefully).” LoveLifeMindSpiritualityRelationshipsPsychologyExpectations Author:Shunya
“Freewill at the level of mind is an illusion. The options you see, the thoughts you get and the option you choose is all part of hard script. The real freewill is at the soul level and you exercise it only in the moments when your soul is awake.” LifeMindSoulChoicesSpiritualityDestinyFutureKarmaFreewill Author:Shunya
“Even now, there are educated people who believe that Earth is flat. They have their own Maths and Logic to prove it. Even if you launch them into orbit. their mind will come up with a logic to prove that Earth is flat, not round. You may laugh at them but you also have your own conclusions and nobody can get you out of them except you, Mind is a crazy Machine. It shows you what you want to see. Keep destroying your conclusions until nothing remains. “Nothing” is the treasure you seek.” MindTruthSpiritualityIllusionAwakeningNothingnessBeliefsBelief System Author:Shunya
“Only saints have infinite capacity of gratitude, Normal people have limited capacity, If you are doing so much favour to someone that they won’t be able to return it, it may make them feel guilty, not grateful.” MindRelationshipsPsychologyGratitudeGuiltGratefulness Author:Shunya
“Answers are just food for mind. Like an animal may someday cross the boundaries of jungle in search of food, you might cross the boundaries of mind in search of answers. The supreme truth is not an answer but you may find Him in search of answers.” MindSpiritualityAnswersBuddhismSeekingHinduismInner JourneySeeker Author:Shunya
“Once you have invested some time and energy on a path, you no longer want to know the right path. You just want assurance that your path is the right path.” LifeMindReligionFaithSpiritualityBeliefPsychologyAssurance Author:Shunya
“Your body is like a kite. The space around you is the turbulent sky through which it is fluttering It is going where the wind of thoughts takes it. Leave this kite here. Don’t fight with the wind either. Just descend deep inside you and find your inner ground. Get hold of the string of awareness. It’s a magical string. You just have to watch the kite “and it will get out of the turbulent sky.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityAwarenessBuddhismThoughtsAwakeningHinduism Author:Shunya
“There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the way it suits you, the way it strengthens your existing beliefs.” MindWisdomSpiritualityBeliefKnowledgePsychologyHinduismReceptivity Author:Shunya
“Language has it’s uses but we have started using it as quick and cheap alternative for actions: It takes a lot of effort to make someone feel that you love them. “I love you” is cheap alternative. It takes effort to create study environment at home so that children feel like studying. “Do your homework” is cheap alternative.” LoveMindSoulActionSpiritualityLanguageRelationshipsDuty Author:Shunya
“Nobody knows who you truly are. From your milkman to your spouse, everyone has a different image of you. You keep accepting, rejecting. correcting and enhancing those images. Even you don’t know who you are. You are searching for yourself.” MindSoulSpiritualityIdentityBuddhismEgoHinduismSearchSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“Cook some interesting experiences with the ingredients you already have in your kitchen. Don't waste your life searching for missing ingredients of some illusive perfect dish.” LifeMindReligionSpiritualityPsychologyIllusionPerfectionLiving In The Present Author:Shunya
“5 Minutes ago you were not the same person as you are now. In the past you were some "other" person. Don't judge others. Be compassionate to others” LifeMindSoulPainSpiritualityRegretSelf LoveGuiltSelf Care Author:Shunya
“Most beautiful treasures are found by grace, not merely by seeking. But seeking is very important. Only when the Ego goes out for seeking can the treasures come in to adorn your soul.” MindSoulSpiritualityLife QuotesGraceEgoSeeking Author:Shunya
“Two people peacefully living together makes no story. To create a story, somebody good must turn bad, somebody bad must turn good. There has to be conflict, drama, emotions... Your mind's craving for stories is wounding your soul again and again.” LifeMindSoulSpiritualityHealingAwarenessAwakening Author:Shunya
“If a woman who has grown up alone in a far off island gets pregnant, she might think that she has got a fatal disease which is making her stomach swell. Your pain and discomfort is intolerable to you because you don't know that you are pregnant with a beautiful destiny.” MindPainSpiritualityOpportunityPerspectiveBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Like your body breathes air, your mind breathes thoughts. You feel depressed when your mind forgets to fully breathe out. Stretch your mind regularly. Contemplate who you are in this infinite cosmos.” MindWisdomBodyDepressionThoughtsInfinity Author:Shunya
“Often people say that their intention was right but action was wrong. Having an intention itself is wrong because it makes you the doer of that action. And doer has to bear consequences. Let your body-mind be just an instrument of the supreme.” MindBodyActionSpiritualityIntentionConsequences Author:Shunya
“You can’t define your duties. You can recognize your duties when they call you. The call comes from deep inside you. It may go against definitions set by mind.” MindPhilosophyWisdomKnowledgeIntuitionDutiesInner Call Author:Shunya
“The pendulum of your mind is going to the extremes because you are going with it. Leave it alone. It will slow down and ultimately stop. Just remain at the center and watch how it tries to tempt you to get a push.” MindBuddhismDepressionAnxietyEmotions Author:Shunya
“Desires are currency notes. If you have a new crispy note and a soiled note, you will first try to spend the soiled note. Desire to find the supreme truth is the most crispy note. You are saving it for last. Even amongst soiled notes, you are first trying most soiled: You first try broken partners before settling for marriage material, you try painful jobs before settling for your passion, you try wrong Gurus and books before settling for the one that you need.” LifeMindPsychologyDecisionsComplacency Author:Shunya
“Pick any movie that you had watched 10 years ago. If you watch it now, you will understand it in a completely different way. Same goes for scriptures. Don’t quote holy books to justify your prejudices. You will start getting their true essence only when you have grown up spiritually.” LifeMindReligionSpiritualityPsychologyHinduism Author:Shunya
“Mind says, “Wherever you see a temple or something related to god, bow down.” Mind wants to be the authority that decides what is godly and what is not. God says, “Wherever you bow down in egolessness, there is me and my temple.” MindGodReligionSpiritualityEgoPurityHolinessEgolessEgolessness Author:Shunya
“Your mind is a net. It can catch flies (worldly information). It can catch butterflies (spiritual knowledge), But it can’t catch the fragrance (Supreme Truth).” MindWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeEnlightenmentLiberationNothingness Author:Shunya
“All feelings are pure at origin. The commentary of thoughts and words pollutes them.” MindHeartFeelingsThoughtsWordsPurity Author:Shunya
“When morality stops you from doing something wrong, you feel ashamed and weak. Shame works like a nutrient for the demons lurking in your mind. It makes them stronger and stronger. When your own inner voice stops you from doing a wrong, you feel good and strong. Demons become weaker and weaker. You have to set aside the heap of morals to find the inner voice buried underneath.” MindReligionSpiritualitySelf LoveMoralityInner StrengthDogmaDemonsInner Voice Author:Shunya
“When attraction is not strong enough, it turns into irritation. If you like mangoes, but not so much that you would do all the effort required in getting them on plate and cleaning the mess thereafter, you would just stay in your comfort zone and feel irritated.” LifeMindHeartPsychologyAttractionIrrigation Author:Shunya