“If it's not in your hand, it doesn't need to be in your hand. It's being taken care of in ways that your mind can't comprehend.” LifeWisdomReligionFaithUniverseTrustFutureAnxiety 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
“When two sides are accusing each other, it's very difficult to figure out the reality. Because reality is different for everyone. The difference is not just in mind. Things actually look different to different people. Two or more people can align or sync their realities if they trust each other. When trust is gone, their realities again become different. This is Samsara.” LifeWisdomBuddhismConflictWrongFightHinduismRightDualityAccusations 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
“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
“When people need a reason to go, they turn the blame on you. When the rain of love turns into arrows of blame, throw away the umbrella and take up the shield.” LoveLifeWisdomRelationshipsHeartbreakBreakup Author:Shunya
“Pain multiplies when you try to go away from it. Be with it until it goes away from you.” LifeMindSoulWisdomBodyPainHeartbreakHeartacheKnowldge Author:Shunya
“Movies, travel, restaurant etc are pleasure for you because they help you escape your routine life. Imagine the pain of people who have so much money that all this has become routine and unexciting for them. Addiction is the only thing left for them to escape the routine... addiction to money, sex, political power and substances .” LifeWisdomPainPleasureAddictionRoutineRelativity Author:Shunya
“If you are OK being dishonest, circumstances will squeeze you so much that you will have no other option but to be dishonest. If you are not OK being dishonest, circumstances will allow you to stay honest.” LifeWisdomUniverseHonestyDishonesty 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
“Relationship between two individuals can't have any problem. But individuals are rare to find. Most people have a whole crowd living in their head. Relationship between two crowds is bound to have problems.” LoveLifeWisdomRelationshipsSolitudeIndividuality Author:Shunya
“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.” LifePhilosophyWisdomSpiritualityPsychologyPrideSelf Deception Author:Shunya
“Your unusual anger or unusual silence may make someone introspect while usual anger or usual silence may have no or opposite effect. To make an impact, you have to do the unexpected.” LifeWisdomChangeSilenceAngerNonviolence Author:Shunya
“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.” WisdomSpiritualityEnergyPeaceSilenceBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“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.” MindSoulWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeHinduismNo Mind Author:Shunya
“Clarity is always in the present moment. If in this moment you have decided on something and accepted its consequences, you have clarity. Not deciding is also a decision. If in this moment, you choose to remain indecisive and accept its consequences, you have clarity.” LifeMindSoulWisdomClarityInner SelfDecisiveness 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
“From your birth, they started feeding you the idea that the universe has only 3 dimensions and limited resources for which you have to fight with each other. If you detach from this idea and spend some time with yourself, you will realize that there are hidden dimensions from which a soul can manifest anything for itself.” SoulWisdomSpiritualityLaw Of Attraction Author:Shunya
“I don't know', 'Maybe', 'Perhaps' - If you have stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don't have beliefs. Beliefs have you.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“People don't have time to be evil. There is pettiness all around but not much evil.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionBuddhismZenSpirituality Vs Religion Author:Shunya
“Past troubles those who divide it into two: Waste that must be disposed off and trophies that must be showcased. Things of the past are raw material for the future. If they are dirty, wash them with acceptance. If they are too bright, dip them into grace.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“Pencil breaks when you sharpen it fully. A student who wants to write only after fully sharpening the pencil will never be able to write. He will waste whole pencil in sharpening.” LifeWisdomBuddhismMindfulnessZenPresent MomentLiving In The Present Author:Shunya
“We can create some information about Buffalo, milk and its nutritional values. We can exchange that information with each other for money, appreciation etc. A monk living alone in jungle doesn't know words such as Buffalo, milk or nutrition. He just wonders, "Green grass enters into this big black thing and a white liquid comes out of it. How!" He can't exchange this wonder with anyone but it transports him to eternity.” WisdomSpiritualityWonderBuddhismEternityZenNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Mind is like government. Just as we file tax returns of all our transactions to government, we file return of all our experiences to mind.” MindWisdomSpiritualityZenNo ThoughtKnowldge Author:Shunya
“If a friend is telling you positive things about their job or relationships, it doesn't mean that they are happy in them. They may be just consoling themselves by counting the positives.” LifeMindWisdomRelationshipsPsychologyHuman Nature Author:Shunya
“One way to serve people is to let them blame you for their pain. The pain whose source is unknown is most unbearable. So people manufacture a source to reduce that pain.” LifeWisdomPainCompassionKindnessPsychology Author:Shunya
“Your kindness is only for the half. The compassion that will flow from deep inside you will be for everyone: rich-poor, deer-lion, wise-unwise because they all are caught in the trap that you will have escaped.” PhilosophyWisdomCompassionKindnessIllusionAdvaitaDuality Author:Shunya
“Broken dreams transform a girl into a woman and a boy into a man.” LifeWisdomMotivationalSuccessLife QuotesLife PhilosophyFailures Author:Shunya
“Understand the difference between mystical art and mystical knowldge. Devotional music, life stories of mystics and gods, images, paintings etc. may temporarily transport you to mystical world but they can't give you mystical powers. Art is beautiful. Knowledge is boring. Ancient sages tried to mix art with knowledge. We discarded the knowledge but kept the art.” ArtWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeMysticismMysticVedanta Author:Shunya
“Those who accept a situation find a way to get out of it. Those who try to run away from it suffer like a fly trapped inside a net.” LifeWisdomSpiritualityPeaceAcceptanceNew Age Author:Shunya
“Ego is like a wall. It is impossible to keep it shining with colours of positivity. The mud and mess of negativity will also stick and spread on it.” LifeWisdomPositive ThinkingPrideEgoNegativity Author:Shunya
“Whether you disappoint someone or make them happy, in both cases you engage and occupy their mind. In both cases you give them what their mind craves for : any form of engagement.” MindWisdomRelationshipsPsychologyExpectationsDisappointment Author:Shunya
“If fire is giving you warmth, it doesn't mean that you should sit inside it. You can enjoy things as long as you keep an optimum distance from them.” LoveLifeWisdomSpiritualityRelationship Author:Shunya
“While being non-violent to others, don't start doing violence to your own self. That would be doing the same thing in reverse.” LifeSelfWisdomSpiritualityCompassionViolenceSelf Love Author:Shunya
“You can enjoy freedom only if you can exercise restraint. For example, you're free to enjoy sweets. But if you don't restrain yourself, you will soon be diabetic and won't be free to eat sweets.” LifeMindWisdomPsychologyYoga Author:Shunya
“There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the way it suits you, the way it strengthens your existing beliefs.” MindWisdomSpiritualityBeliefKnowledgePsychologyHinduismReceptivity Author:Shunya
“Like your body breathes air, your mind breathes thoughts. You feel depressed when your mind forgets to fully breathe out. Stretch your mind regularly. Contemplate who you are in this infinite cosmos.” MindWisdomBodyDepressionThoughtsInfinity Author:Shunya
“You can’t define your duties. You can recognize your duties when they call you. The call comes from deep inside you. It may go against definitions set by mind.” MindPhilosophyWisdomKnowledgeIntuitionDutiesInner Call Author:Shunya
“Your mind is a net. It can catch flies (worldly information). It can catch butterflies (spiritual knowledge), But it can’t catch the fragrance (Supreme Truth).” MindWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeEnlightenmentLiberationNothingness Author:Shunya
“When mind consumes a bad experience, it takes a lot of time to clean itself. Sometimes it starts creating more and more mess because it doesn't know how to clean itself. Body is a self-cleaning organism. Even a dog's body knows how to vomit out stuff. When mind starts creating mess, vacate it for some time and start living in the body.” MindWisdomBodySpiritualitySelf LoveDepressionAnxiety Author:Shunya
“Fall in love with the whole universe, not just the portions that your mind considers important. Mind may run towards the light bulb but the switch is often found away from the bulb.” LifeMindProblemWisdomSpiritualityUniverseGoalsSolution Author:Shunya
“If somebody has already made up their mind, advising them against it is counter productive. More you oppose, more they defend it and more blind they become about it.” MindWisdomRelationshipsPsychologyAdvice Author:Shunya
“More you give care to others, more receptive you should be to receive care from others. Flow should be equal both ways. Unequal flow is a sign of emotional blockages and sickness.” LoveWisdomCareEnergyRelationshipsSelf Love Author:Shunya
“When someone doesn't have what you have, their heart fills with admiration and head with envy. Their heart wants them to become closer to you and their head wants them to become like you.” HeartWisdomRelationshipsEmotionsEnvyGoalsAdmirationHead Author:Shunya
“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).” WisdomSpiritualityEgoInner Peace Author:Shunya
“Learn from waste disposal system of your body. Wasteful people or situations pass through the most sensitive aspect of your life just before they exit forever. Don’t be scared; don’t make a deal with the devil when he is heading towards the exit door.” LifeWisdomLife QuotesPatience Author:Shunya
“You say you have lost everything and life is unfair to you. Check again. You have gained a huge pile of victimhood. Lose this too and you shall find yourself in the lap of supreme power.” LifeGodWisdomPainReligionLossVictimhood Author:Shunya
“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.” GodWisdomSpiritualityLanguageKnowledgeBuddhismThoughtsWordsHinduism Author:Shunya