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“If you've realized that all this is a cosmic drama, you can play a victorious role in it because you have the power of awareness with you.”

Spirituality Awareness Victory Illusion Awakening Dharma

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“You can either hesitate to do something on which others might comment, or you can do something so boldly that others hesitate to comment on it.”

People Spirituality Psychology Confidence Human Behavior Boldness

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“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.”

People Spirituality Society Awakening Inner Child Cosmic Joke

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“We notice our own quality when we see lack of it in someone else. Others work like mirrors for us in various ways.”

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“You want to hear something sweet and you want to hear the truth. How are both things possible at the same time?”

Love Truth Spirituality Ego Lies Beliefs

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“You will get love and respect from others when you stop craving for it.”

Love Life Spirituality Self Love Respect Dignity Self Respect

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“Society gives you some goals. You achieve them after much effort. You celebrate for a few days. Then life becomes the same as before. You don't get the happiness you were expecting. Achievements feel useless. Then you attach your pride to them to make them seem useful. Pride is a tool of self deception.”

Life Philosophy Wisdom Spirituality Psychology Pride Self Deception

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“Further away you are from the truth, more you talk about it.”

Truth Spirituality Peace Silence Preaching Philisophy

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“In literature, words are used to give pleasures to your mind. In spirituality, words are used to take you beyond mind into the ultimate bliss of wordlessness (silence). Many seekers mistake spirituality as literature. They just enjoy the use of poetic words and stories.”

Mind Spirituality Silence Buddhism Zen No Thought

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“Instead of looking at the things, look into the blank space around and within them... Acknowledge the blank surface on which words are written... acknowledge the nothingness that contains everything. Soon you will start experiencing the silence amidst all the noise.”

Spirituality Silence Meditation Mindfulness Nothingness

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“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.”

Spirituality Silence Society Solitude Inner World

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“There are no exams in playschool. If you are tired of exams and tests life is throwing at you, make your life like a book from playschool: Less words, more pictures. Less conclusions, more stories. Less meaning, more poetry. Less interpretations, more direct experiences.”

Life Spirituality Silence Buddhism Solitude Zen

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“If two deer meet in a jungle, they silently eat the grass or play. I am this... You did this... How dare you say that... All these arguments take place only when one of them is not a deer. And these arguments will reach no conclusion. They should either silently accept each other or silently walk away. Silence is the most natural thing in both the cases.”

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“If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music. Most people just keep shuttling between noise and music. To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise.”

Religion Spirituality Silence Meditation Buddhism Zen Hinduism Nothingness

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“People are constantly seeking drama in their life. If you refuse to be a character in their drama, they cast you in silent role by calling you arrogant.”

Life Spirituality Peace Silence Mindfulness

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“Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations.”

Life Spirituality Silence Buddhism Zen Nothingness

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“Talking softly when you are not sick, walking gently when you're not old, staying silent when you have words and so on... The energy you thus save lights your inner lamp and summons the higher powers.”

Wisdom Spirituality Energy Peace Silence Buddhism Hinduism

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“By the time you have described a moment in words, it has passed away. Instead of talking about dead moments, let us birth a new moment in silence.”

Love Life Romance Spirituality Silence Buddhism Words No Thought

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“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.”

Religion Spirituality Silence Psychology Relationship Society Communication Speaking

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“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?”

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“Life is a silent movie. Society gives you subtitles (thoughts and words) which ruin the whole movie.”

Life Spirituality Silence Society Buddhism Zane

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“Soul is absolutely free. It is so free that it can choose to be someone who is not free.”

Soul God Religion Spirituality Freedom Enlightenment

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“Bumps in the road help in awakening the bird sleeping inside the car.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Awareness Awakening Enlightened Seeker

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“Mind is like an addictive smartphone. When it hangs (due to emotional turmoil, moral dilemma etc.), it is an opportunity to be free from it.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Awareness Liberation

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“Mind is like a blackboard-cum-door behind which there is a library of infinite knowldge. What is written on the blackboard is actually a distraction that doesn't let you see the door.”

Mind Soul Wisdom Spirituality Knowledge Hinduism No Mind

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“Bucket may contain some ocean water, not the entire ocean. Your mind can contain theories and stories about gods, not the actual gods.”

Mind Soul God Religion Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening Shunya

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“Suppose you're inside a room and the room starts moving with you. If you take one step, room also moves one step. How will you get out of it? (Your mind is like that room).”

Mind Soul Philosophy Spirituality Liberation

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“Now Gurus remind you that you're not a body-mind, you're a soul. In a few years, Gurus will remind you that you're not a social media profile, you're a body-mind.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Psychology Social Media Internet Addiction

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“You're not something static. You are the mobile consciousness. You can be at 4 levels: (1) body (2) mind (3) soul or (4) supreme-soul (Nothingness) If you're stuck at mind level, come down to body level. Do physical things with all your five senses open. Once you realize that you are mobile, you can move upwards also.”

Soul Spirituality Consciousness Awareness

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“There are a hundred layers of dust and you are saying, 'This layer is mind, this layer is soul. I want to remove this and save this.' No. All of it is mind. All of it has to go. You have to go. What will remain is the divine you.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Divine Buddhism Hinduism Duality Advaitavad

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“Your hungry mind has become the gatekeeper of your soul. Everything I bring for your soul gets consumed by your mind. How long will I keep doing the crime of feeding your mind?”

Mind Soul Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening

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“A character can't get out of a story. But thankfully, you're not a character. You are just attached to a character.”

Soul Spirituality Duality Vedanta Advaitavad

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“If there is 50kg load on your head, you can let go of it. But here the question is of letting go of your entire self. If you save even a bit of yourself, the magic won't happen. Instead you will twist yourself. So many twisted minds and egos out there!”

Mind Soul Religion Spirituality Ego New Age

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“Don't run away from a dilemma. Be with it; Inner clarity shall arise.”

Soul Spirituality Stress Conviction Clarity Dilemma

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“Like the small moon eclipses the Sun, your mind is eclipsing your soul, which shines inside you with the power of a thousand Suns.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Buddhism Zen No Mind No Thought

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“The names you have given to everything are not just names. They are the very fabric of the curtain which is separating you from God.”

Mind Soul God Spirituality Hinduism Nothingness

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“You left home with a beautiful umbrella, an umbrella with golden handle. Heat and rain falling from the sky (bad experiences in life) forced you to open it. Since then, you are tightly holding it, searching for the path to reach back home. Open your fist. The map is printed on the golden handle of your umbrella.”

Mind Soul Truth Spirituality Illusion Seeker

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“A princess was known as “Beauty without Soul”. No prince was ready to marry her because she didn’t have a soul. She went to the Temple of Souls to get a soul. The head monk of temple was very ugly. She said to him, “if an ugly person like you is in charge of souls, I am better without a soul.” When she came out of the temple, many princes were standing in line with marriage proposal because she had accepted herself the way she was, she had accepted that she was alright without a soul. In other words, she now had a soul.”

Soul Spirituality Self Help Self Love Paradox

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“Like Anesthesia detaches mind from body, supreme knowledge detaches the soul from body-mind.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Inner Peace Detachment Supreme Knowledge

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“Imagine that a scientist creates a human clone in a lab based on the genes of a real man called Raghu. It looks exactly like Raghu. Through virtual reality (VR), its mind is fed with experiences and memories of Raghu so that now it believes that it is Raghu. Now both of them -Raghu and the clone - behave exactly the same way. They cry on same things, laugh on same things. How would you find out which one of them has a soul?”

Mind Soul Philosophy Religion Spirituality Hinduism Vedanta

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“You browse through Netflix or Hotstar to find something interesting to watch. At last, you end up watching your favourite show that you have already watched several times. This world is also a show. But there are many such shows available in parallel realms. When you go to sleep here, your soul browses through the list of other shows, watches a few teasers, but at last comes back to this show because it is attached to the characters of this show.”

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“A fish swam a thousand miles through the river and finally met the ocean. The Ocean laughed at this and said, “You are clearly joking. You are a local fish.” Often we do a lot for our family and friends. But then, in just one instant, everything is forgotten. Not just that, we suddenly become villain for them.”

Life Mind Soul Spirituality Relationships Psychology Human Behaviour

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“Your mind is like a runway on airport. It can launch you in the sky so that you can fly to your desired destination. But you have become so attached to the airport that you are using the runway as a road to drive around.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Mystery Enlightenment Awakening Mysticism

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“Your life script is like a newspaper cutting. On the front, there is a clean cut article detailing your life, but on the back side there are some random news items which have nothing to do with your life. If you are clueless about what’s happening in your life, you are reading it from the back side. Aware souls read it correctly so that whatever is in the script (mind) manifests outside.”

Life Soul Spirituality Universe Energy Oneness New Age

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“When we meet a new person, our mind builds their sketch based on the information available. But even a lifetime is not enough to get full information about a person. So, our mind fills in the missing information with its own convenient prejudices. The person you love is not as good as your mind makes you believe. And the person you hate is not as bad as your mind makes you believe.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Psychology Good Beliefs Prejudices

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“If something beautiful is written on a whiteboard, you may never wipe it. Scars on your soul are like random lines scribbled on a whiteboard. They are an invitation to wipe away the past and future and live in eternity. Therefore, scars are sacred.”

Soul Pain Spirituality Healing Trauma Scars

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“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?”

Soul Philosophy Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening Supreme Truth

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“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.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Healing Psychology Wounds

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“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.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Mysticism Hinduism Occult

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“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Buddhism Hinduism Nonduality Advaita Vedanta

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