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“Expectations are like tall buildings with no stairs or elevators. People pelt you into high floors but there is no way to come down. You try to keep living there and suffer.”

Life Suffering Spirituality Freedom Promise Expectations

Author:Shunya

“You are just chilling... lost in your thoughts. A question comes to you with a tone of care and love, “why are you upset?” Even though you are not upset, you actually become upset just to get that sympathy and care. This is a sad truth. You have to be unwell and upset in order to get care and love. So mind keeps searching for reasons to be upset. Even body starts falling sick in hope of getting care and love. Body starts ageing. Perhaps abundance of love can make one immortal.”

Love Life Care Spirituality Relationships

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“When was the last time somebody looked at you? People are just coming before your eyes and saying their dialogues. They are not looking at you. When someone really looks at you, you will feel that you exist.”

Love Heart Soul Spirituality Soulmate

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“As long as you have some power left in you, you will use it to complain, to cry, to spin logic, to harm your body. When you become completely powerless and helpless, you will discover the infinite power in you.”

God Pain Spirituality Infinite Hinduism Helplessness

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“A student asks, "Sir, if you're enlightened, why are you stuck in this body?" Guru replies, "This body is a drop in the ocean. I am the ocean, not a drop. Since you identify yourself as a drop, you only see drops around you.”

Self Philosophy Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening Hinduism Nonduality Advaitavad

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“Imagine people sitting around fire under a starry sky and wondering who we are and where we have come from. But instead we sit in drawing rooms and make statements: "I am so and so, my son is so and so, my god is so and so, my holy book is so and so." If you have already assumed an identity, how will you know who you really are?”

Self Philosophy Spirituality Wonder Buddhism Hinduism

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“If there is a diamond hidden in some drawer at your home, perhaps you won’t notice until next festive cleaning. If it’s in a hotel room. you will find it immediately after check-in. You are in the illusion that your body, family. home, office etc. are yours. Because of this illusion of ownership, you are missing so many diamonds that God has given you. See everything from the eyes of a guest, not owner.”

Self God Truth Spirituality Gratitude Mindfulness Illusion Detachment

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“You are one with the universe. When you try to create an identity separate from the universe, you feel small and insignificant. Then starts the struggle to avoid that feeling. Then you try to pump up that separate identity (ego) through illusions of money, power and status.”

Self Philosophy Spirituality Power Psychology Ego Illusions

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“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.”

Truth Death Spirituality Individual Peace Society Loneliness Inner Peace Aloneness

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“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.”

Religion Spirituality Society Loneliness Alone Solution

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“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.”

Spirituality Society Loneliness Self Love Solitude Awakening Be Yourself

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“Continuous rains flooded a village. It seemed that everyone will drown. A priest lived in a hill temple nearby. He was getting pleasure in this destruction. He was gleefully wishing, 'May all the sinners die.' A cloud burst on the hill. He died. Villagers remained safe. Perhaps his wish came true.”

Religion Spirituality Belief Sin Sinner Orthodoxy

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“All your past Karma get cleaned in just one moment of realization, the realization that you are not the doer. You didn’t do any of it. You just got attached to the doer; you just copied the doer’s Karma on your Pen Drive. The whole data can be cleaned in an instant of realization.”

Spirituality Sin Buddhism Enlightenment Karma Realization Problems Hinduism

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“Obviously, living beings are prejudiced against death. They can't take death of someone as easily as birth of someone.”

Philosophy Death Religion Spirituality Grief Birth

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“If a ball doesn't move the way they expect, physicists would be disappointed with their theory of gravitation, not with the ball. When people don't behave the way we expect, we should be disappointed with our theories about people, not people. Human beings are not dead things. Let's stop trying to conform each other to our theories about each other.”

Life Spirituality Hope Relationships Expectations Dignity Controlling

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“Freedom of soul translates into power of body-mind. To free the soul from Karmic burdens, you should first know what is Karma and What is soul? Why does soul record everything body-mind does? Is there a way to stop it from doing so? Is there a way to erase everything it has recorded?”

Life Happiness Death Spirituality Health Karma Shunya

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“When compulsions make you keep doing something against your will, don’t be frustrated with others. Just observe the helplessness of your own physical self and ultimately detach from it.”

Spirituality Buddhism Inner Peace Inner Self

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“A person got hit by a car. You didn't feel the pain because you are not attached to that person. Someone passed a comment on your clothes; You felt pain because you're attached to your clothes. Attachment causes pain and pleasure.”

Pain Spirituality Criticism Inner Peace Attachment Detachment

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“When you see thing through a window of 100 years, everything seems meaningless and depressing because nothing is going to stay for that long. Through the window of present moment, everything looks beautiful and divine.”

Philosophy Spirituality Psychology Depression Inner Peace New Age Living In The Present Shunya

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“You were born as pure gold. Family and social conditioning coated you with iron and magnetized it. Stop attracting the outside scrap and recognize the gold inside you.”

Inspirational Spirituality Inner Peace Inner Self Inner Journey

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“For worldly activities like swimming and paragliding, you need to put on additional special outfits. For spiritual pursuit, you need to remove your existing outfits (layers of ego).”

Wisdom Spirituality Ego Inner Peace

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“To get godly powers, you must have godly qualities. For human mind, the easiest godly quality to acquire is 'Infinite Patience'. That means, you should be able to wait infinitely for the results. In other words, you should not expect results, Those who can wait infinitely get it instantly.”

Philosophy Spirituality Buddhism Patience Hinduism Expectation Divine Power Inner Power

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“The universe means Time and Space. To befriend Time, be patient. To befriend Space, declutter your life and be simple.”

Life Spirituality Universe Patience Simplicity

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“When we dig a well, we get muddy water before clean water. A thirsty person would swallow the muddy water and become sick. Only those who are detached from the thirst can be patient at the finishing line where nectar is often hidden behind poison.”

Life Success Purpose Spirituality Buddhism Patience Detachment

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“Sages told the king that prince Siddhartha would become a Sanyasi, To avoid it, king kept him within the luxuries of the palace for years. When prince went out, he suddenly saw sick, old, dead and suffering people. He became a Sanyasi. Had prince gone out and seen suffering from childhood, he would have become used to it like we have. He wouldn’t have become a Sanyasi. Telling the destiny and avoiding the destiny are a part of destiny.”

Spirituality Destiny Buddhism Astrology Buddha Hindu Fortune Telling

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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

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“Independence is scary. So we either make others dependent on us or become dependent on others.”

Life Choices Spirituality Freedom Independence Dependence Free Spirit

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“Fandom is about group activities. Devotion is personal. The relationship between deity and devotee is one-to-one. Devotee gives bath to deity, clothes Him, feeds Him and so on. Your Ganesha is only yours. My Ganesha is only mine. As many devotees, as many Ganesha s.”

Spirituality Devotion Hinduism Devotee Bhakti

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

Religion Faith Spirituality Devotion Higher Self

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“When we wake up in the middle of the night to attend the nature’s call, we try to stay sleepy. That is one of the most pleasant feelings. When realized people come out of their state of realization to do worldly chores, they get even better feeling which is called Bliss.”

Spirituality Devotion Realization Bliss Inner Joy

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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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“If you accept yourself the way you are, you will keep getting better and better. If you keep fighting with yourself, you will become more and more wounded.”

Spirituality Acceptance Self Love Self Improvement Peace Of Mind

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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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“Spiralling thoughts exaggerate everything. Good things are not as good as they seem and bad things are not as bad as they seem.”

Mind Philosophy Spirituality Psychology Anxiety Thoughts

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“Suppose you're about to start playing a game. Somebody comes and says, "You're going to play a game." Then if you play, you're proving them right. If you don't play, you are proving them wrong. It no longer remains your game. It becomes all about them. This is how thoughts tie you down. This is how Maya binds the soul.”

Life Spirituality Buddhism Thoughts Hinduism Vedanta

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“There is difference between knowing something and knowing "about" something. To know tea, you have to drink it. To know "about" it, you can google information and write essays or books on it. Tragedy is that most people just want to know "about" God. Those who dare to jump from the boat of knowledge and dive into nothingness are very very few.”

God Wisdom Spirituality Language Knowledge Buddhism Thoughts Words Hinduism

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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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“The journey you undertake to get your answers is more important than the answers. The journey awakens your soul while readymade answers just pile up in your head.”

Spirituality Answers Journey Experience Questions Search

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“While trying to align yourself with people, don't misalign yourself with the universe.”

Life Philosophy God Wisdom Spirituality Universe New Age

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“The sky, the mountains, the trees, the lakes, the air, the Earth, the stars, the moon, the Sun -- all are yours. Don't let the human circus make you forget that you're the child of the universe.”

Life Philosophy Wisdom Spirituality Universe Abundance

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“In physical intimacy, you remove just clothes and facades. In spiritual intimacy, you remove yourself. The latter is possible only in a love affair with the universe, who is sometimes rough but mostly a gentle lover.”

Love Spirituality Universe Feminine Divine Love Tantra

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“A leaf wants to meet the tree. What should it do? It should find out whether it is actually a leaf or it is a power which is falsely identifying itself as leaf.”

Truth Spirituality Universe Illusion Vedanta Supreme Truth

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“When you drink water, the clouds, rivers, ocean, wells and icy mountains should come in your mind. But human ego makes you think that water was created in a factory. Let go of ego and be one with the universe. Ego uses you, the universe nourishes you.”

Spirituality Universe Awareness Ego Mindfulness No Mind

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“Millions of books have been published in English language. Can you merge them all into one book? Sounds impossible? Merge all the words of all the books in a single file, delete multiple occurrences of the same word, arrange the words in alphabetical order. What do you get? A small book with list of all English words. A book smaller than a dictionary. This world seems so complex. More outward you go, more complex it gets. More inward you go, simpler it gets. At the origin, it’s so simple that we can’t describe it using complicated human language.”

Philosophy Spirituality Universe Language Awakening Oneness

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“Your legs, hands, eyes etc. have come together in ONE PLACE to create a system which is called a “Body”. It helps you fulfill your desires. Your friends, family, co-workers, leaders etc. have come together in ONE TIME to create a system which is called “life”. The day you start feeling that you are the brain of this system, the day you start feeling that you are the origin of everything around you, everyone will seem to be working to fulfill your desires.”

Spirituality Universe Enlightenment Oneness Law Of Attraction New Age

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“Best charity is to give yourself away to the universe. Let the universal intelligence direct your actions.”

Spirituality Universe Ego Enlightenment Charity Awakening

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