1,203 Quotes by Shunya

Cook some interesting experiences with the ingredients you already have in your kitchen. Don’t waste your life searching for missing ingredients of some illusive perfect dish.

A typical human mind remains under control of the external world, Maya, which has a never-ending arsenal of highs-lows, good-bad, right-wrong, love-hate, pleasure-pain, likes-dislikes, pure-impure, spiritual-materialistic, belief-disbelief, rational-irrational, and so on to keep a mind engaged. Therefore, Maya has all the powers to enslave a human mind and control what information the latter receives.

Mentally strong people are like a dam on a river. Life keeps on overwhelming them with burdens. If you’re tired of being a dam, just let go! Water will find its way.

Suppose 10 different sculpture artists are thinking about what they are going to sculpt next. If you show them a rough rock, they won’t see rock; they will see what they are thinking of carving from it. Similarly, the universe is just a rough rock. Different souls see different things in it.

Someone who is learning driving takes joy in the knowledge of driving. Someone who is on a long drive takes joy in the soulful experience of driving. Don’t remain stuck in the knowledge. You are here for the experience.

If two types of attachments are pulling you in two opposite direction and you’re not able to decide which way to go, take a break from both attachments. Conflict will automatically resolve. A few months of solitude can save you from lifetime of complications.

While being non-violent to others, don’t start doing violence to your own self. That would be doing the same thing in reverse.

If you trust the universe, you can’t distrust yourself because you are a part of the universe.

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.