136 Quotes by Shunya about wisdom
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Before you learn to make perfect dough, you will add excess water a few times. To find the sweet spot of anything, you shouldn't be afraid of doing it in excess.
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Nothing is stopping you except the names and identities that you've given to yourself. If you identify yourself as a scientist, you can't go outside the boundary of science. Philosopher can't go beyond the boundary of philosophy and a spiritualist can't go beyond the boundary of spirituality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I say, "Sky is blue." Someone who lives in a polluted place says, "Sky is grey". I will have to agree with him because sky can be grey too if it gets covered by smoke. But he won't agree with me because he has never seen a blue sky. The one who knows more has to agree with the one who knows less.
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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).
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Dustbin, chair, bathroom, bedroom... all kind of dirty and clean things can fit perfectly well in the house. Similarly, all kind of people can fit perfectly in life if you just define your boundaries and set your priorities right.Don’t sit near dustbin, don’t keep garbage on chair, don’t bath in bedroom and don’t sleep in bathroom.
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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.
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