“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“How much more pain is required for you to stop bothering about everything and be free, absolutely free?” LifePainFreedomPsychologyAnxietyStressTragedy Author:Shunya
“Nobody knows who we are and what we are doing in this little corner of the infinite cosmos. Don't take anything too seriously. Relax!” PsychologyAnxietyStressMental Health Author:Shunya
“It's easy to say forget and forgive. You can completely forget and forgive only when you reach at your destination and look back and see that it all happened for good.” PainHealingPsychologyForgivenessStressTrauma Author:Shunya
“For those who live in the body, death is the biggest fear. For those who live in the mind, there are much bigger fears than death; There are moments when death almost feels like a relief.” DeathFearPsychologyAnxietyStressTrauma Author:Shunya
“When you feel depressed, you tend to look down. Look up at the point where earthly objects meet the sky. You will feel powerful because everything within this point is your reality. You are its creator. Everything else is just shadows dancing in your head.” SpiritualityPsychologyDepressionStressMental HealthNew AgeHere And Now Author:Shunya
“When you're depressed, you don't feel like taking a bath or cleaning the room. But you feel good after doing it. Same with meditation. You must do it when you don't feel like doing it.” PsychologyMeditationAnxietyMindfulnessStressNew Age Author:Shunya
“Nobody understands you. Even you don't understand yourself. You are suffering because you are trying to fit into known categories, labels and structures.” SpiritualityPsychologySelf LoveAnxietyStress Author:Shunya
“If you're feeling low, take it as a cloudy day. There shall be rain and a new level of clarity shall emerge.” FeelingsInspirationMotivationalPsychologyDepressionStress Author:Shunya
“Astrology. Past life, Psychology : There can be different explanations of the same problem. They just help you see that you are inside a loop. Next step should be to distance yourself from what is inside the loop (body-mind) and realize your true self which is already outside the loop.” LifePainSufferingPsychologyEnlightenmentAwakeningKarmaAstrologyPast Life Author:Shunya
“If you don't have medicine for a wound, leave it alone; Perhaps it will heal by itself. What are you trying to achieve by poking it again and again?” HeartHealingFamilyPsychologyEmotionsProblemsWound Author:Shunya
“You are one with the universe. When you try to create an identity separate from the universe, you feel small and insignificant. Then starts the struggle to avoid that feeling. Then you try to pump up that separate identity (ego) through illusions of money, power and status.” SelfPhilosophySpiritualityPowerPsychologyEgoIllusions Author:Shunya
“When someone intentionally deprives you of something, your dignity is crushed and you feel worthless. It's one of the dirtiest feelings.” FeelingsPsychologySelf EsteemConfidenceDignityHuman Behavior Author:Shunya
“Sacrifice your ego for inner peace.” PsychologyEgoAngerInner PeaceInner SelfAnger Management Author:Shunya
“When you see thing through a window of 100 years, everything seems meaningless and depressing because nothing is going to stay for that long. Through the window of present moment, everything looks beautiful and divine.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyDepressionInner PeaceNew AgeLiving In The PresentShunya 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
“There is a super interesting theory of evolution: Human beings didn't evolve from apes. They evolved from thoughts. Vedas are the original and purest thoughts that existed before human beings. Thoughts use human beings to evolve themselves. Human beings don't use thoughts.” PhilosophyPsychologyEvolutionThoughtsHinduismVedas Author:Shunya
“Why do you want to put clothes of explanation on everything? Why don't you let a few things remain naked, mysterious, original, raw?” PhilosophyAnswersPsychologyCuriosityExplanationQuestions Author:Shunya
“When you're alone at home, go to the mirror and stare at your reflection. You will get scared of yourself. Story of your life is actually a story of how you're running away from yourself and taking refuge in others.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySolitudeInner Self Author:Shunya
“Mind buries bad memories deep into the subconscious and keeps good memories on the surface. Your 'good old days' were not as good as your mind makes you believe.” HealingPsychologyTraumaNostalgia Author:Shunya
“We all have soft spots hidden behind a cover. Once in a while they get exposed and make us cry. But if you're always in victim mode, you're deliberately keeping your soft spots exposed to get a twisted kind of pain and pleasure out of them.” PsychologyEmotionsTraumaVictimhood Author:Shunya
“In movies, they show hero as a victim first to make his violence look heroic. Similarly, all groups that incite violence make you feel victimized first so that you can feel like a hero when you do violence.” ReligionSpiritualityPoliticsPsychologyViolenceSocietyCommunismRiotOrthodoxy Author:Shunya
“Sympathy and outrage are the only two emotions people know these days. They have forgotten how to love a well and happy person. They are desperately attracting things in their life over which they can show sympathy or outrage.” PainPsychologySocietyTherapyActivist 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
“If you don't have a filter in your mind, you will immediately offend those who wear filters and masks. To avoid offending, you will also install a filter and become 'sane'.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySocietyInsanityBeing YourselfHypocrisySanity Author:Shunya
“Conversations are like movies. There has to be a villain to make them interesting. Often it’s difficult to find a safe, distant and common villain. Our desire to have a conversation is so strong that we end up making someone close to us a villain. “Mom, your favourite child did this.” “Dear husband, your mother did this.” “Son, your wife did this.” These are just attempts of a human mind to do an interesting conversation but they end up in a full fledged drama at home.” SpiritualityFamilyPsychologySocietyCommunicationConversation Author:Shunya
“Slavery and mastery are ugly things. But if the slave or master looks, behaves and talks in formal manner, slavery and mastery not only become acceptable but also respectable. After fire, formality is the next best discovery of mankind. Fire makes everything eatable, formality makes everything acceptable and respectable.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySocietyAnthropology Author:Shunya
“Complete truth and complete falsehood both don't engage people. A mixture of truth and falsehood engages everyone because some people try to prove it as truth and others as falsehood.” PhilosophyTruthSpiritualityPsychologySocietyMindfulnessFalsehood Author:Shunya
“We consume two type of information: One that makes us grow; Other that gives us an emotional release. The second type of information is being bombarded too much these days. Politicians, activists, entertainers, businesses, spiritual teachers, admins of online groups -- All are exploiting human emotions. People are turning into diary cows that can be milked anytime by giving an injection.” ReligionPoliticsPsychologySocietyInformationPropaganda Author:Shunya
“A door can either free you or imprison you. Every single thing is like a door. For some people even sex became door of liberation and for some even holy books became door of imprisonment.” LifePhilosophySpiritualitySexPsychologyBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“When two or more people are watching you, you feel like you're on a stage. If you don't have a stage personality, your mind goes numb and you behave awkwardly. With your original personality, you can deal with only one person at a time.” PsychologySelf HelpConfidencePublic SpeakingStage Personas Author:Shunya