“First they declare something as evil. Then they criticize it day and night to show themselves in good light. Because being actually good is difficult, weak minds have devised this easy method to feel that they are good.” LifeSpiritualityEvilSocietyGood Author:Shunya
“When children act serious, we feel amused by them. People are just children who have taken their roles too seriously. If you feel anything but amused by them, you too have taken your role too seriously.” PeopleSpiritualitySocietyAwakeningInner ChildCosmic Joke Author:Shunya
“When milkman knocks at the door, you don’t have to open it. Let him leave the milk at the door. Similarly, you don’t have to react to everything people say or do in your life.” PeopleMindSocietySolitudeAngerInner Peace Author:Shunya
“When a seed starts fearing the soil, it runs to the lab to become a hybrid. Seed is you. Soil is your inner world. Lab is society.” SpiritualitySilenceSocietySolitudeInner World Author:Shunya
“Your whole being is like a home. Everyone is allowed to come at the door, only a few in living room, fewer still in bedroom. And then there is a secret room where nobody is allowed. Not even your own mind. We are so obsessed with others that we mostly live at the door (outer appearance) or in living room (job, relationship and travel that we do to fit with others).” SelfRelationshipsSilenceSocietySolitudeEnlightenmentVanityInner SelfAlonenessStatus 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
“God said, "I am the one and only word spoken in the language of silence. All the words spoken or written by the mankind are just an attempt to translate me into their language. So many holy and unholy books, so many theories, ideologies, doctrines, dogmas_. Why. humanity. why? Why can’t you accept that I can’t be translated? Why can’t you return to the language of silence in which I am originally written?” GodReligionSpiritualitySilenceSocietyDogmaBeliefs Author:Shunya
“Life is a silent movie. Society gives you subtitles (thoughts and words) which ruin the whole movie.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceSocietyBuddhismZane Author:Shunya
“Your cook, who feeds real food to your body, lives in slums. Your politicians and celebrities, who feed controversies and drama to your mind, live in palaces. Introspect how big is the stomach of your mind & how much you’re indirectly paying to feed it.” MindSoulBodySpiritualityPoliticsSocietyBuddhismDrama 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
“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
“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
“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
“People can't have an opinion about you. Because you're nothingness. They have opinion about the body-mind you're wearing. That's understandable. If you're wearing blue and somebody doesn't like blue, that's totally fine.” SpiritualityOpinionWorrySocietyConfidenceNothingnessOpinions Of OthersShunya Author:Shunya
“The swords hanging at your head are keeping you in fear 24×7. Let them fall. They will only cut the artificial heads given to you by society. Your original head will stay unharmed. You will become free and fearless.” SpiritualityFearFreedomWorrySocietyFearlessness Author:Shunya
“For society, you are not even a human; you are just a trained manpower. For them, you can “Rest in Peace” only after death. That too is a lie. To discover the eternal peace inside you, you have to walk alone.” TruthDeathSpiritualityIndividualPeaceSocietyLonelinessInner PeaceAloneness Author:Shunya
“Bananas come in a bunch. So a single banana is the most ignored thing in a fruit shop. Apples come alone. They are liked alone as well as in a group. You were born alone like an apple. You fear being alone because society has programmed you to feel like a banana.” ReligionSpiritualitySocietyLonelinessAloneSolution Author:Shunya
“To be yourself, you have to be behind closed doors. Outside you are just playing different roles. It's ironic that to free yourself from the prison of society, you have to lock yourself inside a room.” SpiritualitySocietyLonelinessSelf LoveSolitudeAwakeningBe Yourself Author:Shunya
“There are many religions in society but society itself is the super-religion. It says, "You are a nobody. All your life you have to try and become somebody. You are a pathetic bio-mass. You have no divine existence." Surprisingly, everybody follows this crazy super-religion.” ReligionSocietyCompetitionInner PeaceRat Race Author:Shunya
“If you have seen your teacher only in school, it feels strange to come across them in a market. If you have seen your milkman or newspaper boy only at sunrise, it feels strange to see them in broad daylight when they come to collect payment. When a friend or loved one breaks away from your circle, it feels strange to see them in their new circle. It is not jealously. It is a spontaneous and neutral feeling. It turns into jealousy when it gets mixed with our fears and insecurities. Accept this feeling as-it-is before it turns into jealousy.” RelationshipsFriendshipSocietyJealousyComparison Author:Shunya
“Society was to decide a common currency so that we could use it to buy things as per our unique needs. But now our needs are also being decided by society. Society was to decide a common language so that we could use it to talk about our unique feelings. But now we only talk about agendas and fads set by society.” NeedsLanguageSocietyThoughtsDesires Author:Shunya
“A turbulent state of mind is a necessity to do all the crazy things society is making you do. A peaceful mind can't do all this. Don't seek peace. Seek more turbulence if you want to continue with this madness.” SpiritualityPeaceSocietySolitudeRat Race Author:Shunya
“Society is a prison where prisoners are keeping each other hostage.” FreedomSocietyEmotionsLiberationAttachment 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
“Transparent children of God, competing with each other to look different, have put on layers and layers of colourful illusions.” GodReligionSpiritualitySocietyComparisonRat Race Author:Shunya
“It's good that they couldn't paint you fully with dull colours of normalcy. Some streaks of abnormality, some patches of madness are still visible on you like divine signatures.” SocietyUniquenessAbnormality Author:Shunya
“People no longer have 'disease'. Now they have 'health issues' that can be managed if they regularly visit hospitals. The system doesn't solve problems. It uses fancy terms to normalize and regularize them and makes them part of economy.” TruthSocietyLiberationProblemsSystem 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
“What do you do?" "I am in search of God." A culture where this answer is considered 'abnormal' is doomed.” GodReligionCultureSocietySeeker Author:Shunya
“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!” ReligionHumanitySocietyEternityUnityOneness Author:Shunya
“Don't let them rob your feminine in the name of feminism. Amputation is not a cure of the wound.” SocietyFeminismBuddhismFeminineWomen EmpowermentHinduismTantraShakti Author:Shunya
“Unique things can't be compared. Human beings discard their uniqueness and try to become like each other so that they can compare with each other. Comparison creates feeling of being superior or inferior, weak or powerful. Human being crave both. Feeling weak gives a different kind of release than feeling powerful.” PhilosophySpiritualitySocietyBuddhismComparisonHinduismUniqueness Author:Shunya
“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'.” LifeReligionSpiritualityRelationshipsSocietyNoYesPhiloshophySocial Circle Author:Shunya
“If you feel that you are the owner of your body-mind, you are violent. No matter how much you suppress your violent energy, it will come out in some form, You will either harm yourself or others.” LifeSpiritualityViolenceSocietyBuddhismMoralityEnlightenmentNon Violence Author:Shunya
“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.” TruthReligionFaithSpiritualityBeliefSocietyDogmaRigidity Author:Shunya
“If a black cat crosses your path, don't move ahead." This is a fictitious rule but the submissive energy you feel when you follow this rule, and dominating energy you feel when you rebel against it are real. Every tribe and society has such absurd rules because mankind has always taken great interest in creating something real out of unreal.” PhilosophySpiritualitySocietyCustomsRules Author:Shunya
“Suppose you are chilling somewhere and see a diamond a few meters away on your right side. Your mind’s first reaction would be, “That must be a piece of glass, not diamond.” Now, on your left side a few meters away you spot an unknown object towards which 2 people are running from opposite side. Your mind’s reaction would be, “If two people are running towards that object, it must be something precious. Run and grab it before they do.” Often, our mind makes us compete with others over peanuts while the diamond which is meant for us lies unattended.” LifeLife QuotesSocietyComparisonRat Race 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
“Life designed by human society is like a TV serial full of drama and tension. Peace, prosperity, justice, equality, health -- These are just empty slogans flying around since the beginning. Society has no interest in these things. Society is interested in the drama and new episodes that get created when characters pursue these things.” PhilosophySpiritualityPeaceJusticeSocietyMorality 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
“If beautiful flowers were edible, you would eat them stale because you would use fresh flowers for decoration and display. Life is like a rare beautiful flower which is edible. We spend most of it in displaying to others.” LifeWisdomLife QuotesSocietyComparisonShow Off 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
“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.” PhilosophyReligionSpiritualityPeaceViolenceSocietyInner SelfSect Author:Shunya
“A rich man exploits the poor and then donates some money to a temple. Then temple helps the poor. These are circles of life. If you try to break them, you will end up becoming a part of them. Have compassion for everyone involved in the circles, including yourself. This is the only way to be free from them.” PoorRichSocietyIllusionOppressionMayaAdvaita Vedanta Author:Shunya
“Reading people's bio feels like reading specifications of an assembled computer: X memory, Y processor, Z display... We are born unique but useless for society. Then we have to acquire and assemble some common things to become useful for the society.” SpiritualitySocietySelf LoveUniqueness Author:Shunya
“There is a circus going around you. If you enjoy it as an audience, you can go to your inner home anytime you want. If you get involved in the act, they will sign you up as a performer for lifetime.” LifeSocietyBuddhismChaosHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“In ancient times, people who didn’t cross the line were called good. The tragedy of our times is that there are too many good people: they conveniently shift the line so there is no need to cross it.” PhilosophySocietyGoodRighteousnessDogmaBadConvenience Author:Shunya