“When you finally jump out of the pond and see trees for the first time, how would you describe them to your former companions in the pond who have only seen moss till now? Weird large frames covered with moss?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningSupreme Truth 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
“You have trapped your soul inside the boundaries set by your mind. Body-mind are just instruments. There are a thousand instruments of same shape and size. Let your soul choose one freely.” MindSoulSpiritualityMysticismHinduismOccult Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNondualityAdvaitaVedanta Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline. While trying to find the path which is beyond all opposites, you will realize that you are not mind.” MindSoulBuddhismHinduismNondualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“There are no colours. There are things and light that appear to have colours. Our mind labels them as Red, Green, Blue etc. But they too are just labels, not colours. Colours are non-existent. But non-existence is more real and alive than existence. Your real self (soul) resides in non-existence.” SoulPhilosophyExistenceEnlightenmentAwakeningHigher Self 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
“Not taking an action is also an action. Not making a choice is also a choice. Body-mind can't escape from action. But if your action or inaction is guided by the awareness of your soul and silence of your inner self, it will take you out of the mess.” SoulActionSpiritualityBuddhismKarmaZenHinduism 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
“Painful experiences of the past are carved on your ego. Peel off all layers of your ego and you will find your spotless, pure and shining soul underneath.” SoulReligionSpiritualityEgoPurityScars Author:Shunya
“Seekers get out of almost all layers of division, duality and two-ness. But their ego keeps them stuck in the duality of human and non-human, living being and non-living being. They can't see everything as one. They speak big words about soul, gods and scriptures but have no experience of godliness.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Your body-mind has a past, not you. You are eternal.” SoulPastSpiritualSpiritualityBuddhismEternityHinduismHigher Self Author:Shunya
“You see a woman showing immense affection to her child and her dog. Then you see the same woman hating others' children and eating other animals. These kind of people have no love inside them. They are just soul-less bags of flesh and blood that react to external stimulants.” LoveMindSoulSpiritualityCompassionKindnessAttachment Author:Shunya
“Human ego and drunk poets have ruined the powerful concept of soul and turned it into a flowery notion. Your character (body-mind) can function on its own. Soul doesn't do anything. It just witnesses what the character does. The character would go on as per its script even if your soul weren't here to witness it.” SoulDeathSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismFreewill Author:Shunya
“It's the nature of mind that it always wants to reach somewhere. Total acceptance also includes accepting this nature of mind. When total acceptance happens, soul awakens and mind calms down on its own.” MindSoulChangeAcceptance Author:Shunya
“When babies fall asleep at one place but wake up at another place, they don’t even feel surprised. They know that their mother must have shifted them during sleep. If something similar happens to you, you will freak out. This attachment to the body and the surroundings is the reason your higher self is not able to shift you to better scenes in life.” MindSoulFreedomBuddhismHinduismDetachmentHigher SelfFreewill Author:Shunya
“Phases in spiritual journey: First you are a fire (Fire to seek the truth). Then you turn into ash (Earth) and become compassionate towards everything like mother Earth. Then ash flows into water. You want to wash away all the darkness inside and outside you. Then water evaporates and becomes air. Your notions about dark and light, good and bad evaporate. Then the trickiest part is to realize the Shunya or nothingness. Air can’t become Shunya. Everything including air is inside Shunya.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNothingnessShunyaFive Elements Author:Shunya
“In cricket fielding, if catch comes right in your hand, there is no fun. You enjoy the most when you have to dive to catch the ball. This is what playfulness is all about. Difference between being a servant of someone and surrendering to someone is playfulness. Don’t make things too easy in your relationship with your spouse or children or gods. Keep the playfulness alive.” MindSoulSpiritualityRelationshipsBuddhismSurrenderDevotionHinduismPlayfulness Author:Shunya
“Draw some dashes on a paper. Now mentally try to create a line by joining two of more dashes. Did you do it? Where is the line you just created? It’s in your mind. It has no existence except in your mind. The relationship between you and the line you just created is same as the relationship between the supreme soul (Paramaatma) and soul. The souls have no separate existence.” SoulOnenessHinduismAdvaitaVedantaNon Duality Author:Shunya
“A Yogi in solitude romances with life. The rays of sunlight falling on his skin have travelled millions of kilometers to meet him. What a passion! The food he has prepared has not been seen by anybody except him. What an intimacy! The pebble he has just thrown in river will never be seen by anybody ever again. What a heartbreak!” SoulSpiritualityUniverseWonderMeditationSolitudeMindfulnessAloneness Author:Shunya
“A rock sits on the ground while a flower sits on a thin stem a few inches above the ground. Both are stable in their positions. If the flower tries to mimic the stone’s stability and falls on the ground, it will die. You have to find your own stability in life. What is stablility for someone else may cause pain and fear in your life.” MindSoulSpiritualitySecurityStabilityInner Self Author:Shunya
“You are taking bath. A bad memory comes in your mind. You keep pouring water. Water running on your body gives you so much relief because it seems to be washing off a thin dark layer that you don’t want. Similarly, a new costume is nothing but a new layer of cloth that you add to yourself. It makes you feel so good. To bring a massive change in your life, you don’t have to become like someone else. You have to become yourself plus and minus a thin ayer. Permanent change will happen only if that plus and minus happens to your soul, not body: Plus and minus of Karma and Desires accumulated on your soul. Your soul knows how to bathe itself. You just have to give it some room by creating wall of detachment.” SoulSpiritualityMeditationSelf LoveDetachment Author:Shunya
“A laptop is a good example of what this universe is all about. When it is folded, it is nothing. There is no movement and no visuals. When you unfold it, two parts emerge: the keyboard part and the screen part. The screen part is the outer world or the Existence. That is where your body exists. The keyboard part is inner world or the non-Existence. That is where your soul (non-)exists. A soul often gets so attached to the visuals on screen that it forgets about the keyboard or the inner world.” SoulSpiritualityHinduismAdvaitaInner WorldNon DualityDualism 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
“Outward spiritual pursuit” - This is an oxymoron but these days I see a lot of young men and women on “Outward spiritual pursuit”. Your mind can create an exact replica of everything your soul has to offer. It can make you feel like you are on spiritual path. But mind’s replica of solitude is depression. Mind’s replica of No-thingness (non-existence) is Nothing-ness (pessimistic outlook). Mind’s replica of Samadhi is suicide.” MindSoulTruthSpiritualityIllusionNothingnessInner Path Author:Shunya
“Your head wants you to do something for a better future. Your heart wants you to do what you like in the present. They are like two directors of a company. If they are on the same page (what you enjoy doing in present is also good for your future), the company flourishes. They come on the same page when the auditor or observer of the company (your soul) is aware.” LifeInspirationalSoulLife QuotesAwareness Author:Shunya
“Leftist, Rightist, Centrist - Let your mind be what it wants to be. Just don’t lose the awareness that you are a soul and you have the freewill to detach from this mind.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismIdeologyHinduism Author:Shunya
“A child who has just learned alphabets can’t enjoy the story until she learns the meaning of the words. Life is a story. You can read it through worldly knowledge but you can’t enjoy it until you get the spiritual knowledge.” MindSoulWisdomSpiritualityInner SelfSpiritual Knowledge Author:Shunya
“If circumstances make you lift your feet off the floor, don’t start crawling on the ceiling. This is the nature of Maya (Space-Time). The ceiling becomes the new floor. The high becomes the new low. Fly in the nothingness (Shunya) within which everything including the floor and the ceiling exists!” SoulTruthSpiritualityIllusion Author:Shunya
“The only power lies in the awareness of soul. An actor turned politician once told a monk, "Life makes us feel powerless every moment. People think that we (celebrities, politicians and elites) are powerful so we have to keep pretending that we are powerful. It's like sucking an empty milk bottle. It's so frustrating.” SoulSpiritualityPowerAwarenessMindfulnessInner Power Author:Shunya
“Don’t feel guilty of being angry at your loved ones. That anger is just a state of love. If love is milk, that anger is boiling milk; it kills harmful bacteria.” LoveLifeSoulSpiritualityLife QuotesRelationshipsAngerGuilt Author:Shunya
“Imagine that you are watching a movie which is so engaging that you forget yourself. Suppose that the movie is not 3 hours long but millions of years long. Of course, a human protagonist can’t have such a long story. So, the protagonist of the movie is someone who changes forms from human to cow to monkey to tree to dog to cat and so on... Then who are you and who is the protagonist of the movie? Aren’t you the eternal power watching your own story unfold before you?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismHinduismSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“Search the most weird thing on Google. You will find some people somewhere doing that thing. Your mind is even more advanced than Google. Whatever you want to believe, it can churn out logic to support that. Look at human history, most brilliant minds have died debating over their beliefs and no common conclusion has been reached so far. And it will never be reached. Mind is tricky machine that can complete any task that you assign it Give it the task of dissolving itself and it will dissolve itself with its own logic. Then you can experience the oneness - the Paramatma.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“A snake charmer was travelling in a bus. He asked for 21 tickets from bus conductor. On being asked “why”, he replied, “Whenever I open my basket and bring out the snake, 20 people also come out to see it. So I have 20 people in my basket.” That should be the mindset of a meditator. Enjoy this world as long as you want but when you want to meditate, you should be able to realize that all the people and things around you are all in your head. You should be able to wrap it all up and put it back in the basket.” SoulSpiritualityMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessHinduism Author:Shunya
“Imagine you wake up one morning and see a new mole on your chin. You will freak out. This is called Relative Change - something was not there yesterday but it is there today. Now suppose that along with the new mole, somebody installs some past memories about that mole in your mind. You will not notice the change because the memories will make you believe that it was already there. This is called Absolute Change. You can only detect change, not absolute change. So a god or goddess can live in your house as your family member and you would not even notice them because of the memories they install in your mind.” SoulPhilosophyTimeSpiritualityChangeMysteryMysticismHinduism 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
“Soul awakens when it stops identifying with the body+mind. But in many seekers their mind stops identifying with the body. That is a painful situation because they are neither here nor there. Society seems meaningless to them and awakening remains elusive to them.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNew AgeOld Soul Author:Shunya
“I am a soul." This thought may give relief to beginners. But as you advance on spiritual path, this thought creates a huge problem: Your mind splits into two. One part starts acting like a soul and says "I am a soul." And the soul remains asleep.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya
“Imagine a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces. There are a million ways in which it can be incomplete but there is only one way in which it is complete. Your mind thinks that it is a player with the mission to solve the puzzle of universe. The truth is that mind itself is the last piece of the puzzle. Surrender! Dissolve the mind and be one with the rest of the universe.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityUniverse Author:Shunya
“Desires are like coil springs. When we try to handle them at the mind level, we either suppress them too much or stretch them too much. In both the cases, a lot of stress and negative energy accumulates that harms us.” SoulSpiritualityMindfulnessDesiresDesirelessness Author:Shunya
“Virus that doesn’t belong to your body, and people that aren’t meant for you create diseases and problems in life. To counter them, you bring a solution. If the problem doesn’t belong to you, the solution doesn’t belong to you either. So solution is another problem in disguise. If you enjoy the process of finding solutions, it’s OK. But if you really want to eradicate a problem, you must eradicate it from the root so that even the memory of the problem doesn’t stay with you.” SoulSpiritualityProblemsHinduismSuperpowersKundalini Author:Shunya
“Imagine that God or Supreme Power came before you in the form of a fragrance which is a mixture of all the fragrances of the universe. But your mind will only pick up fragrances you are familiar with and say, “I know the fragrance of God. It’s like fragrance of my child... my lover ... my parents... my childhood memories ...” The God is right before you but your mind is recognizing only small parts of Him. To experience Him fully, you have to rise above the level of mind, and then rise above the level of soul, and finally be the God or Paramatma.” SoulGodSpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningHinduismNothingnessSupreme Soul Author:Shunya
“When you throw a stone to get a mango from tree, it’s a normal thingcause and effect. What if you just mimicked the hand gesture without actually throwing the stone and still get the mango? That is magical. That is how this world feels when you enjoy it from the level of soul. Maya (Space-Time) doesn’t want you to be at the level of soul. She suggests, “You can have this kind of experience at mind level too. You can get reaction from people just by doing acting, just by faking the action.” Since we lack the soul-level magical experience, we try to emulate it at mind level by faking things. Let aside earning money, even the act of love becomes an exercise in fakeness. The search of that magical experience at mind level often turns into lust and greed.” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityMagicIllusionGreedLustHinduism Author:Shunya
“In a few decades, perhaps people will get attached to social media profiles just like you are attached to your body mind now. Then Gurus will have to remind them, “Profile is nothing but some pictures and data stored in servers owned by social media companies. You don’t own it. You just access it. Don’t bother about likes and followers. You are not a profile. you are a body-mind!” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismIllusionHinduismVedantaSpiritual KnowledgeSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“God, the world seen through the glasses of my limited understanding no longer interests me. I surrender my questions, my answers, my theories, my opinions, my beliefs. Fill me with awe. Overwhelm me with your wonders.” MindSoulGodFaithDevotionHinduismAdvaitaNon DualityHindu Author:Shunya
“Your body-mind is like a cup made of clay. If it is filled with feelings -- negative, positive, dark, light sweet, sour-- close your eyes and drink it. Your soul can drink even poison as though it’s nectar. Everything is blissful at soul level.” MindSoulFeelingsPainSufferingThoughtsEmotionsOverthinking Author:Shunya
“A bird is inside a moving car. He is flapping his wings and thinking that car is moving because of him. That is your life: Bird is your soul, car is your body-mind. You say, “There is no satisfaction in the journey.” Guru says, “Detach from the car.” But you panic as soon as you hear the word “detach”. It only means, fly above the car, not inside it.” MindSoulAwakeningHinduismDetachmentVedantaNon DualitySpiritual Knowledge Author:Shunya
“When you touch river Ganga in Rishikesh, you also touch the ocean to which the river is connected. Because the distinction between the river and ocean is just in your mind. You also touch the vapours rising from ocean, You touch clouds, rains, earth, mountains, You touch eternity. You touch God. Remove the distinctions, clean the mind. God is right here, right now.” MindSoulWholeGodSpiritualityUniverseAdvaitaDualityNon Duality Author:Shunya
“Life is like photography. At one point we realize that candid photography offers more “Perfect Moments” than stressfully trying to control everything to create such moments.” LifeMindSoulLife QuotesMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessControlLet GoMinimalism Author:Shunya