“Mind happily consumes information but it resists transformation. The day you allow yourself to be transformed, a Guru will appear before you in visible or invisible form.” MindInformationTransformationAwakeningGuruNo Thought Author:Shunya
“When mind consumes a bad experience, it takes a lot of time to clean itself. Sometimes it starts creating more and more mess because it doesn't know how to clean itself. Body is a self-cleaning organism. Even a dog's body knows how to vomit out stuff. When mind starts creating mess, vacate it for some time and start living in the body.” MindWisdomBodySpiritualitySelf LoveDepressionAnxiety Author:Shunya
“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
“Spiralling thoughts exaggerate everything. Good things are not as good as they seem and bad things are not as bad as they seem.” MindPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyAnxietyThoughts Author:Shunya
“Tendency of your mind is to remember those who have hurt you. Flip the mind, nurture the soul: Remember those who have been nice to you.” MindSoulPainSpiritualPeaceHurtPsychology Author:Shunya
“Responding to hurt at body level (shedding tears) and mind level (churning thoughts) gives you release. You learned this response from parents, society, books, TV, movies etc. If you don’t respond to hurt at body-mind level, it will hit directly at your soul. And then soul will run towards the supreme soul. Hurt will become the purest form of prayer which gets answered instantly.” MindSoulPainHurtPrayerBuddhismHinduism 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
“Your ego lives inside you but she is not you; she is your close cousin. We always react more when a family member is hurt. That’s why you react when your dear cousin Ego gets hurt. Your core self is very secure and untroubled by what people say.” LifeMindPainHurtEgoInsecurity Author:Shunya
“Your intuition can guide you; it can't guide your alternative self that you carry to fit in with others.” MindSoulRealitySpiritualityIntuition Author:Shunya
“When a schizophrenic patient sees things that others don’t see, he at least knows that his mind is playing with him. But your hallucinations, which you call reality. are being validated and strengthened by everything and everyone around you.” MindRealitySpiritualityBuddhismIllusionHinduismSchizophreniaHallucinationSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“Normally, the dream world is the bathroom Whatever impurities you pick up in waking state get cleaned in the dreams. It’s a painful abnormality if your dreams are coming true later in reality (impurities of bathroom coming into home). Then there is a new normal when there is no distinction between home and bathroom (Reality and dreams mixing with each other).” MindSoulRealitySleepDreamsDream Interpretation Author:Shunya
“Stand before a mirror, ignore your reflection and try to see the whole mirror. It’s difficult. God stands before you like a huge mirror but you only see your own reflection, your own tiny world.” MindSoulGodRealitySpiritualityBuddhismIllusionHinduism Author:Shunya
“We see what our mind shows us, nothing less, nothing more. If there is a camel out there but our mind decides to show it as cow, we will see cow, not camel. We don't know what is actually out there. It maybe God Himself. But our limited mind shows us limited things.” MindRealityBuddhismIllusionHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“As your soul becomes more and more aware, magical coincidences start happening: Things that happen in your life seem related to thoughts that occur in your mind. Ultimately you realize that you are the creator of your own reality.” MindSoulWisdomRealitySpiritualityBuddhism Author:Shunya
“A, B, C, D... These alphabets are everywhere in a book. But our mind reads whole words and sentences. Similarly, God and godliness is everywhere. Our mind only sees people, animals and things.” MindPhilosophyGodRealityReligionSpiritualitySupreme Power Author:Shunya
“Come, O darkness, come! Swallow all the shadows I have been chasing all my life. I want to meet my true self at the break of dawn.” MindTruthDarknessPsychology Author:Shunya
“Your outer self has 5 layers. Society wants you to stay within 4 layers: There are gyms for body, the circus to pump up your head, cinema for your heart, religion for your morality. Nobody is there for 5th layer. 5th layer is the dark forest full of guilt, shame, dark thoughts, immoral decisions, emptiness and so on. An individual has to cross this forest alone to reach the most beautiful flower - your pure inner self.” MindReligionSpiritualityDarknessSelf LoveSubconsciousJung Author:Shunya
“To know the path of supreme truth, young Shani Deva first went to the Light. When the Light refused to tell the path, he went to the Darkness. There he discovered his own inner light which showed him the path. Light and darkness both are in your mind. When you accept both or reject both, you discover your own inner light which comes from the soul.” MindSoulLightSpiritualityDarknessBuddhismHinduismDualityInner Light Author:Shunya
“When it's dark and you are alone, you start humming or create some other distraction to avoid fear. Who creates fear and then offers distraction? Us Both are done by your mind to stop you from meeting your true self. Mind plays both side of the game.” MindWisdomTruthSpiritualityFearDarknessPsychologyBuddhismHinduism 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
“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
“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
“You are soul and soul is beyond all existence. You are not thoughts; Thoughts are invisible and intangible but they are not beyond existence; They exist along with the rest of the matter and energy.” MindSoulEnergyPeaceBuddhismThoughtsHinduismAdvaita Author:Shunya
“Are you really free? You possess things or things possess you? You have thoughts or thoughts have you? You have a mind or mind has you?” MindPeaceFreedomThoughtsLiberation Author:Shunya
“Your mind's hunger is many times more than body's hunger. Do fasting of mind. On the day of fast, don't consume any content through TV and internet. Instead feel the air around you, hear all the subtle sounds coming to you, observe the life throbbing in your body and so on.” MindSpiritualityPeaceMeditationInternetMindfulnessInner Peace Author:Shunya
“Spiritual experiences happen at soul level and they're very positive and powerful. When similar experiences happen at mind level, they are called mental sickness because they're very negative and harmful.” MindSoulSpiritualityPeaceMental IllnessTantraMantra Author:Shunya
“I wish I could communicate with you. But your mind stands like a wall between us. Once I melt this wall with my words, we will communicate in silence for eternity.” MindSoulSpiritualityPeacePsychologyEternityMental HealthDivine Love Author:Shunya
“The one who is looking for peace is not your soul, it's your mind acting like a soul. Mind plays dual game. It creates noise in the present and wants peace in future. That future never comes.” MindSoulPeacePsychologyLive In The Moment Author:Shunya
“Don't try to impose silence and peace on your mind. Such a silence and peace will be momentary and superficial. When you jump from the boat of mind, you will fall in the depths of eternal peace and silence.” MindPhilosophyPeaceSilenceEternity Author:Shunya
“Problem is not the problem. Problem is that you have problem with the problem. Do what you can do to solve a problem but don't be obsessed with it. It shall pass.” LifeMindProblemLife LessonsPeacePsychologyDepressionAnxiety Author:Shunya
“Fire, Earth, Air, Water -- one or more of these elements may make you restless. You need to spend them properly to find peace. To spend fire, burn outdated structures, taboos and so on. To spend Earth, build a structure, a good habit and so on. Spend air through creativity, spend water through serving and healing people.” MindPeacePsychologyTraditionCharityRebellionFive ElementsTaboo Breaking Author:Shunya
“Displace app icons on your phone. Change your browser. You will realize how you are being compulsively drawn to some websites and apps. People before phones were not saints either. Phone is just an extension of mind. It's the mind which is controlling you (soul) .” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityPeacePsychology Author:Shunya
“If you are obsessed with a social issue, you carry a deep wound from your past. Thank you for your service to society, but what are you doing to heal yourself? Society lives in the mind. If you heal your inner wounds, your outer world will also clean up. If you don't, you'll become part of toxic groups and rabid activism.” MindSpiritualitySocietySelf HelpSelf LoveActivism Author:Shunya