1,203 Quotes by Shunya

Just as you can hide a tall building behind a tiny finger, you’re hiding God behind yourself.

Is this good? Is that bad? Asking these questions show that you want to be ruled and commanded by someone from outside. Ask “who am I?” to start getting guidance from inside you.

We can forget our headache by self inflicting deeper pain in some other part of body. That is what anger is – A self inflicted pain to numb the hurt caused by others.

Human beings have a unique ability to turn anything into suffering. Imagine that humans have started flying like birds. Flying has become a status symbol. Living on the ground is considered shameful. There is a mad competition to stay in the sky all the time. People don’t land. They suffer. Counsellors teach how to ease stress of flying. And spiritual Gurus say, “You fools! It’s OK to land and live in peace.

Be someone who has nothing. Then everything you have will feel like a luxurious gift. Even better, be someone who doesn’t even have a body. Then every touch and every visual offered by the body will feel heavenly.

Human beings are great lawyers. They can find loopholes in any holy book to do they want to do. Conscience has no loopholes. That’s why they always prefer holy books over their conscience.

After a point you have to lose your ideas about gods to meet real gods, you have to lose spiritual knowledge to find the soul, you have to lose everything that can be lost to find that which can’t be lost.

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.

A healthy discussion can take place only if all sides have respect for each other’s views. Otherwise they just drive each other to their extremes and ultimately explode.