“If the attempt to get rid of something is leading you towards more darkness, that thing has become your shadow. Just accept it. First it will stop bothering you, then it will stop affecting you, then it will stop existing for you.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismIndifferenceAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“Your entire being is like a tree. Your family and friends only touch specific parts of it - mostly the fruits, maybe some branches. A large part of you remains untouched. You feel like a machine, you feel dead inside. You shout, snap, and sulk at random things, or silently suffer. How to tell them that you want your entire being acknowledged? Or maybe you yourself have forgotten your entire being. That’s why you need a person or a deity, a mortal or immortal, who is like air, who doesn’t want anything specific from you, who touches every inch of your being, who makes you feel alive.” LoveReligionFaithSpiritualityRelationshipsTrustDevotion Author:Shunya
“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
“If you trust the universe, you can't distrust yourself because you are a part of the universe.” GodReligionFaithSpiritualityUniverseTrustSelf LoveSelf Belief Author:Shunya
“If you trust the universe as a whole, you will feel secure. If you trust just a part of the universe (a person or a thing), doubt will come along with it. The duality of trust and doubt will make you insecure.” FaithSpiritualityUniverseDoubtTrustDuality 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
“We keep clinging to unworthy and painful things just because we have invested our time and energy in them. Your time and energy is safely deposited in your Karmic account. Trust the universe and let go. Clear the space for things that you truly deserve.” LifeSpiritualityUniverseTrustLetting GoKarmaLaw Of Attraction Author:Shunya
“Hope and fear conspire with each other to keep you running here and there whole life. Trust your inner lamp which shows you what you should be doing in the present. It will get you out of suffering very soon.” LifePurposeSpiritualityHopeFearTrustPresentHere And NowDirection Author:Shunya
“Things go wrong with those who trust everyone except their own instincts, and with those who doubt everything except their own doubter mind.” LifeWisdomSpiritualityDoubtTrustHinduism 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
“Every situation is unique. So there can't be a standard definition of right and wrong. But deep down every soul knows what is right. We use reasoning to avoid our own soul.” PhilosophyReligionSpiritualityDoctrineWrongDogmaRightBeliefsVirtues Author:Shunya
“No matter on which path you are, keep walking. Even wrong paths can lead you to right path if you keep walking. You get stuck when you become a security guard of a path.” SuccessReligionSpiritualityPathWrongRightOrthodoxy Author:Shunya
“You become free and fearless when you realize that all are equally clueless about life, be it old or young, rich or poor, king or servant, educated or uneducated...” LifeWisdomSpiritualityCourageConfidenceFearlessnessShunya Author:Shunya
“A seeker must have courage and discipline both. it's hard to find both these traits in one person. Those who have courage go reckless. Those who have discipline become bookish and reluctant to explore new things.” SpiritualityCourageDisciplineExplorationSeeker Author:Shunya
“Pride and shame both are clothes. Lions wear no clothes. They are neither proud nor ashamed of who they are. That's why they look powerful. Pride shows weakness, not strength.” CharacterSpiritualityCommunityStrengthPrideShameDuality Author:Shunya
“You say you're madly in love with me. Yes, I can see the madness but no love. You don't love me. You're madly attached to a fantasized version of me that you've created in your head. You don't talk to me. You talk to your fantasies.” ReligionSpiritualityHeartbreakFantasiesOne Sided LoveMad Love Author:Shunya
“When you're glued to someone with a strong adhesive, you can't just let go of them. You have to let go of your skin, your flesh, a part of your heart and soul. It's extremely painful but equally sacred because spiritual journey is all about letting go of yourself piece by piece, layer by layer.” LoveSpiritualityRelationshipsLetting GoHeartbreakAttachment Author:Shunya
“You were like raw gold. Somebody threw you into fire. You are molten gold now. You are in the middle of transformation. Come to me. I will cast you into a beautiful shape. That is the only way to forget the one who threw you into fire.” SpiritualityHeartbreakTransformationHinduism 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
“When people stop being the way they were, your mind starts increasing the spices to compensate for the loss of ingredients. Our eyes open only when it’s too late... when ingredients completely disappear and our own spices is all that is left.” LoveLifeWisdomSpiritualityLife QuotesRelationshipsHeartbreak Author:Shunya
“Possibility of heartbreak is base ingredient of attraction. If you remove that possibility, attraction will also go away.” LovePainSpiritualityHeartbreakAttractionDuality Author:Shunya
“Sunrise and sunset are beautiful moments but you can't hold them. Let things move. There will be more sunrises and sunsets.” LoveLifeSpiritualityHeartbreakAttachmentNew BeginningsDetachmentPossessiveness Author:Shunya
“If you can take apart a machine and assemble it back again, you have mastered that machine. If you have fallen apart and pulled yourself back together, you have mastered yourself.” LifePainSufferingSpiritualityHeartbreakTransformation Author:Shunya
“If you are allowing someone to lift you up with praise and compliments, you are giving them power to throw you down with blame and insults.” LifeSpiritualityRelationshipsSelf EsteemHeartbreakDignity Author:Shunya
“There was a sage who was expert in herbal medicines. With great difficulty he once procured a rare seed which, as per his intuition, could cure any disease. He planted the seed. After 12 years of extreme hardwork, the tree yielded nothing but poisonous fruits. How could he let go of 12 years of investment? So he started nurturing the tree more and more in hope of turning it into the elixir it was supposed to be. The poison of tree started entering into his blood now. He was about to die. Luckily a disciple came to visit him and destroyed the tree. A couple of years later, during a casual walk into jungle, he found a full grown tree with fruits that could cure any disease. Let go of relationships or projects that turned out to be poisonous or dead. Your investment will come back to you in the form of luck.” LifeSpiritualityRelationshipsHeartbreakLuckFortuneSeparationAttachment Author:Shunya
“You were a fish in an aquarium. You went swimming in free waters with someone who turned out to be a shark, You are back in aquarium but now water is red because of your wounds. Only parasites will grow in it. Change your perspective towards your past. Accept that the shark gave you courage. Now all you need is the knowledge of self. Then you will become a swan swimming in the eternally peaceful lake.” LoveSpiritualityRelationshipsRegretHeartbreakGuiltWoundsBreakup Author:Shunya
“Before you can go inward and meet the supreme power, you have to go outward and meet your 4 invisible minds that control you. The fast way to meet them is to follow them blindly. Each one of them will give you their introduction through a different type of pain: (1) Your beautiful future plans will collapse so that it will feel like end of the world. (2) Your lover from heaven will turn out to be the devil from hell. (3) Circumstances will make you break the morals and values that are integral part of who you are. (4) You will chase the mysteries and the unknown only to painfully realize that this universe is endless.” MindSoulPainSpiritualityUniverseMoralityHeartbreak Author:Shunya
“You want to spend your day like an emperor and then sleep deeply like a labourer. That’s not possible in this world of dualities. Here definition of pleasure is relief from pain. Eternal bliss is found when you detach from both.” LifePainReligionSpiritualityPleasureBuddhismBlissDuality Author:Shunya
“Pain and pleasure are the same energy inside you. When it flows at a slow rate like sunlight in a morning winter, it's pleasure. When the flow rate goes beyond a threshold, it's pain.” LifePainSpiritualityEnergyPleasureBuddhismHinduismDuality 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
“Desires set the direction of your life. As soon as you desire to go to Paris, the car of your life changes its direction towards Paris. Due to lack of fuel (Karma), you may not reach Paris but you may reach some good or bad place which is in that direction.” LifeDesirePurposeSpiritualityWishGoalKarma Author:Shunya
“Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyPainReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“Search of truth is actually a search of strength to handle the truth.” PhilosophyLife LessonsSpirituality Author:Shunya
“When we like something too much, a part of us wants to keep them forever in our 'wishlist' because we know that when wishes comes true, they lose their charm.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyPainReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“Imagination is our hidden power to see the planes of existence that our eyes can't see. Use your imagination to disintegrate things into abstract forms and colours... and then watch them reintegrate. Sadly, people have stopped using their imagination and started using substances to have such heavenly experiences.” MindSpiritualityImaginationWonderPowerPshycologyOther Worldly Author:Shunya
“Imagine that the universe is the size of your room. There is nothing outside your room. But you can expand the universe as far as your senses go. If you can see a mountain from the window, universe has expanded till the mountain. If you walk 2 km outside the room, it has expanded 2 km. If you are reading about Britain, universe has expanded till britain.. and so on. This is not an imagination. This is reality. Your universe exists only as far as your mind goes. You are expanding it by discovering new things.” PhilosophyWisdomSpiritualityUniverseImaginationWonder Author:Shunya
“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point." But for people, drama is the point. A point is useless to them if it doesn't provide drama.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“You're hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn't sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You're the eternity.” PhilosophyRealitySpiritualityIllusionHinduismNondualityDualityShunya Author:Shunya
“Experiencing a particular thing strongly is passion. Experiencing everything deeply is compassion. The short-lived flame of passion must be used to discover the eternal Sun of compassion. Otherwise you will feel cheated every time a passion dies.” LoveSpiritualityPassionCompassionBuddhismMysticism Author:Shunya
“An embroidery machine has to do chaotic motions to create beautiful patterns. Chaos in life means that creation of something beautiful is in progress.” LifeSpiritualityPassionCreativityChaos Author:Shunya
“You are a golden bird inside a wooden cage. Red roses will only fill your cage with fragrance for a while. Red hot embers will burn your cage and set you free forever.” LoveLifeInspirationalSpiritualityPassionDangerComfort Zone Author:Shunya
“In passion we lose the sense of right and wrong. In compassion we transcend the notions of right and wrong. Love is a flight from passion to compassion. A caged bird falls into the fire of passion only to burn the cage. Then it flies freely in the skies of compassion.” LoveSpiritualityPassionFreedomCompassionDivine LoveLibration Author:Shunya
“A human being is million times bigger than a bacteria, planet Earth is million times bigger than a human being. So human beings are just bacteria thriving on Earth's skin. Science gives facts. The egolessness required to sink in those facts comes from spirituality.” FactsSpiritualityPerspectiveScience And SpiritualityEgolessness Author:Shunya
“Sunset is as beautiful as sunrise. Why can't the endings be as beautiful as beginnings? Why do we fly in 7th heaven in the beginnings and fall to 7th hell in the endings? Why can't we stay at the ground?” PeopleSpiritualityRelationshipsHeartbreakMaturityShunya Author:Shunya
“If you have hurt someone and they are angry at you, you are safe from the Karmic backlash. When their mind has forgiven you, their soul will cry every once in a while. That is when Karma will come to sting you.” SoulPainSpiritualityBuddhismHeartbreakKarma Author:Shunya
“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
“I like this, I dislike that. He is good, she is evil.' This black and white approach towards life gives us very low quality experiences. To make up for the quality, we run after quantity. We seek more and more dramas everywhere be it home, office, road, TV, news media.” LifePhilosophySpiritualityEvilBuddhismGoodDualityExperiences 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
“A beggar is sad because his alms collection is lower than usual. An emperor is sad because his tax collection is lower than usual. You are on a circular ladder. There is always a lower and higher.” PhilosophyHappinessReligionSpiritualitySadnessFailureComparisonRelativity Author:Shunya