“When you see ads again and again, the brand becomes familiar to you. Familiarity makes you think that you know about the content too. Actually we don't know much about anyone. We just see things and people again and again and become familiar with them. It creates the illusion that we know them.” PhilosophySpiritualityKnowingPsychologyTrustIllusionFamiliarity Author:Shunya
“A king often saw a white pigeon visiting his garden. It would fly away whenever he tried to approach it. He won its trust after great efforts and brought it to his palace. Soon after everything started going wrong in his life. He never doubted the pigeon for this. In fact he would cry before it and say, "You are the only good thing remaining in my life." How could he doubt someone whose trust he had won with great efforts?” MindSpiritualityPsychologyTrustBuddhism Author:Shunya
“If somebody has a false belief, you can’t deliver them the truth unless they fully trust in you. More you try to hammer the truth at them, more they will defend and strengthen their false belief.” MindTruthReligionSpiritualityBeliefPsychologyTrustDogma 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 all your emotional issues get resolved, what will happen to the entertainment industry? How will they engage you? You won't be able to relate to any story. Whole industry runs on your issues.” SpiritualityIssuesPsychologyDramaHeartbreakEmotionsShunya Author:Shunya
“Revenge is counter-productive. Let them drown in the pool of their bad Karma. Going into their pool just to fight them satisfies your ego but harms your soul.” MindPsychologyHeartbreakRevengeKarma Author:Shunya
“When somebody is massaging your head, you will notice that they tend to leave one spot untouched. You will say, “Why are you leaving the spot where it is itching the most?” The truth is, that spot is itching the most because it is being left out. “Why am I not getting the thing I want the most?” should be rephrased as “I am itching to get this thing because I am not getting it.” The power of a desire lies in the difficulty to fulfil it.” SoulPhilosophyDesireSpiritualityPsychologyKarmaDesires Author:Shunya
“When clouds full of water fail to rain, they create a depressing weather. Similarly, some people are so full of love that when they fail to rain it, they feel sad and depressed for no apparent reason.” LovePsychologySadnessDepressionDivine Love Author:Shunya
“Every time you feel sad, you become a little silent Now your mind has started associating silence with sadness. Be silent when you are happy. When mind starts associating silence with happiness, going into meditative silence becomes easier.” MindSilencePsychologySadnessBuddhismThoughtsZenHinduismNo Thought 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
“You can either hesitate to do something on which others might comment, or you can do something so boldly that others hesitate to comment on it.” PeopleSpiritualityPsychologyConfidenceHuman BehaviorBoldness Author:Shunya
“People are constantly searching for an external enemy in order to forget their internal conflicts. Don’t oblige them. Stay detached.” PeoplePsychologySolitudeConflictInner PeaceDetachment 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
“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
“People speak for two reasons, One, they speak to express what is in their mind. Second, and more often, they speak to hide something that silence might otherwise reveal.” ReligionSpiritualitySilencePsychologyRelationshipSocietyCommunicationSpeaking Author:Shunya
“Software is not supposed to damage hardware. Mind is not supposed to damage body. But it is happening in most people. In some cases mind is so nasty that it is ready to kill the body instead of killing itself. When individual mind goes, universal mind takes over. Then peace dawns because body belongs to the universe.” MindSoulBodyPsychologySuicideMental HealthSuicidal Thoughts Author:Shunya
“Now Gurus remind you that you're not a body-mind, you're a soul. In a few years, Gurus will remind you that you're not a social media profile, you're a body-mind.” MindSoulSpiritualityPsychologySocial MediaInternet Addiction Author:Shunya
“What you think, speak and do is mostly in reaction to the people and situation around you. Rare are those moments when your bare soul expresses itself from deep within.” MindSoulPhilosophyPsychologyInner Self Author:Shunya
“A fish swam a thousand miles through the river and finally met the ocean. The Ocean laughed at this and said, “You are clearly joking. You are a local fish.” Often we do a lot for our family and friends. But then, in just one instant, everything is forgotten. Not just that, we suddenly become villain for them.” LifeMindSoulSpiritualityRelationshipsPsychologyHuman Behaviour Author:Shunya
“When we meet a new person, our mind builds their sketch based on the information available. But even a lifetime is not enough to get full information about a person. So, our mind fills in the missing information with its own convenient prejudices. The person you love is not as good as your mind makes you believe. And the person you hate is not as bad as your mind makes you believe.” MindSoulSpiritualityPsychologyGoodBeliefsPrejudices Author:Shunya
“After closing a bad chapter in life, allow your soul to heal your old and new wounds. Otherwise the script of next chapter will be the same, only characters will change.” MindSoulSpiritualityHealingPsychologyWounds Author:Shunya
“The new trend of capturing pics instead of enjoying the experience is not new. Human mind has been doing that for ages. Your mind tries to capture the experience by naming, defining, judging, comparing and categorizing everything. As a result, your soul misses the live dance of colours, sounds, shapes and sensations happening before you.” MindSoulPhilosophyPsychologyBuddhismZenOnenessNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Suppose you have a weighing scale that has maximum weighing limit of 10kg. If I put things below 10 kg on it, it will measure them correctly. If I put an 11kg thing, it will measure it incorrectly as 10 kg. When you try to describe things that are beyond your limit, you end up describing yourself and your own limits.” MindSoulPhilosophyGodPsychologyMysticismHinduism 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
“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
“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
“Do you know your parents? No. You're just familiar with them. We see things again and again, become familiar with them, give them some name and think that we know them. We don't know even a single thing or person.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“To detach from your character, you should first know it fully -the dark side as well as bright side. It doesn’t mean that you should try everything in the world. To know itself, a tree doesn’t need to get hit by an axe at every inch of its being. The air around it can make it feel how far its branches go. When you are in a position to do something and do it, you only get to know one side of you. When you don’t do it, you get to know two sides of you -the one that wanted to do it and the other that didn’t.” SpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismZenDetachmentDark SideNo Thought Author:Shunya
“When you listen to the sound of waves at the beach, you feel relaxed because your mind doesn’t have to agree, disagree or judge that sound. Human beings are nothing but waves of five elements. Why does your mind go in overdrive when their sounds fall in your ear? You will feel tremendously relaxed when you stop agreeing. disagreeing or judging every human sound that falls in your ears.” SpiritualityPeacePsychologyJudgingZenJudgementHinduismNo Thought 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
“In divine love or devotion, you lose yourself like ice melts into water. In love, you just lose control over yourself like iron loses control near a magnet; And when you regain control, you feel bad.” LovePsychologyDevotionHeartacheBreakupDivine LoveKrishna Author:Shunya
“You behave like the perfect person with others. But you unload all your mental crap on those who are close to you. Is it fair?” LoveRelationshipsPsychologyHuman NatureHuman Behavior 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
“The evil power of fake currency is that it brings the original currency under suspicion and forces it to prove itself at every step.” LifePsychologyHuman NatureOriginality Author:Shunya
“If people weren't busy making a living and dealing with their problems, they would destroy each other in innovative ways. Misery is keeping the human race alive. An individual will continue to be miserable until she learns to handle lack of misery by knowing her true self.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyViolenceSocietyHuman NatureMiseryInner Self Author:Shunya
“One way to serve people is to let them blame you for their pain. The pain whose source is unknown is most unbearable. So people manufacture a source to reduce that pain.” LifeWisdomPainCompassionKindnessPsychology 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
“All toxic relationships feel like soulmate connections. A sign of toxic relationship is that you lose other people. You live to please just one person. You develop a new personality just for him/her. And that personality wants to be with him/her even after all the pain your soul goes through.” PsychologyRelationshipSoulmatesNarcissismToxic Relationships Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like an umbrella. You want me to come under it. How is that possible? I am the sky. Throw away the umbrella. Let me drench you.” PhilosophyGodReligionSpiritualityPsychologyRelationshipDivine Love Author:Shunya
“You are pure milk. If you pour yourself into a bowl which already has some water, the bowl will accuse you of being adulterated. You can’t prove your purity until the bowl drains out its water and closes the inlet.” LifePsychologyRelationship 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
“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