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“Spirituality is not about changing who you are. It’s about discovering who you are.”

Life Philosophy Religion Spirituality Transformation Self Discovery

Author:Shunya

“God is in my heart.' -- This has become the most common excuse to avoid spiritual journey. If He were in your heart, you would be swept over by feelings and emotions. Instead thoughts and opinions are crawling all over you.”

Religion Spirituality Buddhism Thoughts Emotions Devotion Hinduism

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“Without seeing a miracle you can't have faith. Without faith you can't have miracle. The answer to this paradox is gratitude. Be grateful that you're alive. It's a miracle.”

God Religion Faith Spirituality Belief Miracle Devotion

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“Juvenile lover’s mind imagines, “The one I love is in danger. I go and save her. She falls in love with me.” The beginner devotee’s mind imagines, “Some lowlife disrespects my deity. My deity is in danger. I go and fight for my deity. He blesses me.”

Religion Faith Belief Devotion Hinduism Dogma Fanaticism

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“Dear God, what can I offer you? I brought these flowers, But all plants are yours, so are the flowers. What is mine to give? My eyes have filled with tears. But these eyes are yours, so are the tears. I have nothing to offer except my gratitude.”

God Religion Prayer Gratitude Devotion Hinduism

Author:Shunya

“When you watch mountains, ocean or think of the infinite space, you feel small in a positive way. You feel close to the sacred nothingness. The path of devotion is based on the same phenomenon: You devote yourself to towering figures who can make you feel so small (in a positive way) that you feel closer to nothingness, closer to God.”

Religion Faith Spirituality Devotion Nothingness

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“When true surrender happens (through supreme knowledge or devotion), you become brush in the hands of the supreme painter, and He turns your mistakes into masterpieces.”

Religion Faith Buddhism Surrender Devotion Hinduism

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“I can win over anything because I let my higher self win over me.”

Religion Faith Spirituality Devotion Higher Self

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“The gods don’t like to enslave you. They don’t like to give salary. Ask them for bonus and you will get it beyond your wildest imaginations. How to ask? Simple. Be satisfied with what you have right now. Then everything you seek will be a bonus.”

Religion Faith Gratitude Devotion

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“You have tried changing things the way you want. Now try accepting them the way they are. Acceptance brings things closer to you. And closer they are, more influence you have over them.”

Life Religion Spirituality Acceptance

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“A leaf fell from the tree, trembled with fear, and prayed, “Cod, stitch me back to the tree.” God didn’t seem to listen. So it befriended air, which took it far away from the tree. Another leaf accepted the fall without fear. It turned into compost and entered back in the roots of the tree. It rose through the tree and became a new leaf in next season. It got “stitched” back to the tree!”

God Religion Faith Spirituality Fear Acceptance Hinduism

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“Every loss creates a void. If you try to fill it, you will fill it with garbage. If you let time fill it, it will be filled with normal stuff. If you don't let it fill, God will call out to you through it. Then you will begin the journey to find Him.”

Pain Religion Spirituality Loss Void

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“You say you have lost everything and life is unfair to you. Check again. You have gained a huge pile of victimhood. Lose this too and you shall find yourself in the lap of supreme power.”

Life God Wisdom Pain Religion Loss Victimhood

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“All processes in nature create waste but nature takes care of the waste too. The thought process is man-made. The waste it creates is like plastic. Religions all over the world have turned human mind into a factory of creating pious thoughts. The waste it creates is immense and dirty. People try to burn it with the fire of hatred, riots, wars and so on... True religion is about discovering the zone of no thought.”

Religion Buddhism Morality Thoughts Hatred Hinduism Virtues Riots No Thought

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“Recklessness comes from ego. Fearlessness comes from letting go.”

Religion Spirituality Fear Danger Letting Go Ego Recklessness

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“If you uncover yourself and find who you are, the universe will also uncover itself before you, If you try to forcefully uncover the universe without uncovering yourself, you will meet endless layers after layers of planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter and what not!”

Philosophy Wisdom Religion Spirituality Universe Meditation Curiosity Hinduism Inner Self

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“Two things happen at the same time: In inner world, your soul starts surrendering to the supreme soul (Paramatma]. In outer world, a love affair starts between your body-mind and the rest of the universe. And the universe loves like no lover ever can.”

God Religion Faith Spirituality Universe Surrender Hinduism

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“The whole world is a family.” It has become a moralistic phrase. Ancient Indian sages had designed it as a powerful thought experiment: Imagine that whole world is a small family. That family is living alone, surrounded by infinite dark space in which countless planets and suns and galaxies are floating.”

Philosophy Religion Spirituality Universe Buddhism Hinduism

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“If your needs (not desires) are within your resources, you are blessed. If a blessed person has no friends, universe does not create situations in which he would need a friend.”

Needs Philosophy Religion Universe Blessing Desires

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“A dentist can work on you only if you remain calmly sitting in the chair. Usually our wish gets fulfilled when we get tired and stop wishing for it. Because that’s when we become calm and allow divine energies to work upon us.”

God Religion Faith Universe Wish Karma

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“All your spiritual knowledge will just remain a theory until you go in full solitude. How long will you keep talking to your shadows (people around you)?”

Religion Spirituality Solitude Miracle Hinduism Vedanta

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“Gratitude is often mistaken with humility. Gratitude erupts from inside you. You wear humility out of fear of losing things. One technique to experience gratitude is to sleep on the floor and fast. No fear... No insecurity... Pure gratitude for simple things such as food and bed.”

Life Religion Spirituality Humility Gratitude

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“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.”

Religion Spirituality Politics Psychology Violence Society Communism Riot Orthodoxy

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“Transparent children of God, competing with each other to look different, have put on layers and layers of colourful illusions.”

God Religion Spirituality Society Comparison Rat Race

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“What do you do?" "I am in search of God." A culture where this answer is considered 'abnormal' is doomed.”

God Religion Culture Society Seeker

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“There is chaos all around and you are looking for oneness and unity. Most of you're sticking with a unit called body which hardly lasts 100 years, or to units such as family, cast, religion, country or humanity. Humanity is the largest of them which lasts a few thousand years. That is nothing compared to the eternal oneness, the unit that lasts forever. Find that!”

Religion Humanity Society Eternity Unity Oneness

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“If you want to keep your social circle clean, don't hesitate to say 'No'. Those who don't understand your 'No' don't deserve your 'Yes'.”

Life Religion Spirituality Relationships Society No Yes Philoshophy Social Circle

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“The strength of a belief depends on the stories woven around it. Once you have woven enough stories around your belief, even God can't get you out of it.”

Truth Religion Faith Spirituality Belief Society Dogma Rigidity

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“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.”

Religion Politics Psychology Society Information Propaganda

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“Rich, poor, high, low -- the one thing common in all human beings is misery. The real cause of their misery is that they have lost touch with their inner self. But if you want to become a leader of a group of human beings, tell them that the other group is the cause of their misery.”

Philosophy Religion Spirituality Peace Violence Society Inner Self Sect

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“You want to play the game of life but wish that there should be no opposition, no obstacles, no challenges. How's that possible?”

Life Philosophy Wisdom Success Religion Spirituality Failure Obstacles

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“Laws of Karma dictate one person to give and other person to receive. The receiver is in no way inferior to the giver.”

Religion Spirituality Karma Hinduism Giver Receiver

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“When you buy a device from market, you get a booklet with it. Entire western science is a booklet for a device called “human”. They assume that we are human. The East has experienced that “human” is just a device we are currently using. We are much more than a human.”

Life Philosophy Religion Spirituality West East

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“Human psychology is that anything you do in a group feels right. People as a group can kill someone and call it religious because it feels right to them. Religion and righteousness are not the same thing. Religion is about going beyond right and wrong and seeing things as they are without any prejudices and judgements.”

Religion Psychology Cult Prejudices Group Group Mentality

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“The supreme knowledge is fatal. It kills your ego. Ego loves ancient books because it has developed immunity against them.”

Religion Buddhism Ego Enlightenment Hinduism Vedanta Ancient Knowledge Supreme Knowledge

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“If you don't try to define Him like scholars do, if you don't reduce Him to a mere concept, any path can lead you to Him. Even thieves and decoits can find a sharp exit on their path and merge with Him.”

God Religion Spirituality Buddhism Hinduism Divine Path

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“If you're not willing to be pulled out of your existing mental and physical structures, you can't expect to have anything different from what you have.”

Life Religion Spirituality Wish Transformation Desires Structures

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“As long as the white sheet is spotless, you keep it carefully. When a spot appears on it, you start using it brutally. The ideas of morality or purity imposed on you by the outside world are like a dam. When it breaks, floods ensue. The only source of permanent purity is inside you.”

Religion Morality Guilt Mistakes Purity Dogma

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“A medicine that cures death would be the most popular thing in the world. Since that's not available, religions and sects that promise a heaven after death are the most popular.”

Truth Religion Heaven Theology Dogma

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“After a point you have to lose your ideas about gods to meet real gods, you have to lose spiritual knowledge to find the soul, you have to lose everything that can be lost to find that which can't be lost.”

Soul Wisdom Reality Religion Spirituality Knowledge

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“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.”

Mind Philosophy God Reality Religion Spirituality Supreme Power

Author:Shunya

“Darkness invites you to create a light show.”

Philosophy God Light Religion Spirituality Darkness

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“In the village of light, there lived a man. Out of curiosity, he once crossed the village boundary and met the darkness and gave her the offering of dark thoughts and dark deeds. When he returned to his village, the light shamed him for what he did. So he ran back to darkness and did more dark deeds. Since then he is running between light and darkness... wait a minute. The light is also acting as an agent of darkness here.”

Philosophy Religion Spirituality Darkness Morality Morals

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“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.”

Mind Religion Spirituality Darkness Self Love Subconscious Jung

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“Seeing God is as difficult as seeing the white cinema screen when a 3D movie is playing on it.”

Philosophy God Religion Spirituality Peace Shiva

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“It is one thing to look into someone's eyes while talking. It is completely another thing to look into them in silence. When there is silence inside and outside you, look into your deity's eyes. You will get pulled into them and never come out.”

Love God Religion Peace Devotion

Author:Shunya

“When you see something, your mind rushes to put labels on it: table, chair, good, bad etc. Sacred space is a space where your mind doesn't feel need to label anything. It relaxes, allowing you to go inward. That space can be sea shore, forest, mountain, beloved's arms or a temple. For awakened ones, every inch is sacred.”

Religion Peace Buddhism Sacred Hinduism Temple

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“A princess liked the sour taste of raw mangoes. She was very happy to find a tree laden with raw mangoes. But soon mangoes became ripe. She became very sad. She started blaming the tree and the gods for her sorrow.”

God Religion Spirituality Peace Inner Peace

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“We become mirror image of those whom we blindly oppose. And we don't even realize it.”

Religion Politics Society Activism Ideology Orthodox Dogma Extremism

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“Oneness has to be realized, not created. Those who try to create oneness in the world end up creating one more group, one more sect, one more division.”

Religion Spirituality Universe Enlightenment Activism Self Realization Oneness

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