Shunya Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. All decisions taken from a position of weakness go wrong. Weakness means not taking responsibility of the decision, not accepting the consequences that might come with a decision. Then you end up blaming yourself or the one who influenced your decision.

2. Broken dreams transform a girl into a woman and a boy into a man.

3. No matter on which path you are, keep walking. Even wrong paths can lead you to right path if you keep walking. You get stuck when you become a security guard of a path.

4. No matter what you achieve in this material world, at the end it all feels like a movie watched in the distant past.

5. People are of two types: (1) Those who can follow a plan; they build their life like a wall. (2) Those who can't follow a plan. They grow in life like a tree. If you're second type, do what is to be done in the present moment and leave the rest on the universe.

6. Success is like a high profile person and Struggle is her grumpy secretary who doesn’t let you meet her easily. When you befriend Success, when you become worthy of her friendship, you can meet her directly.

7. Success is like an immature lover. It promises you stars and moon and what not. When you finally get it, you just enjoy a brief honeymoon period after which things become the same or maybe get worse.

8. 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.

9. Two types of people sing praises of hard work (1) Hard workers (2) Lucky people who want to reassure themselves that they got it all through hard work.

10. 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.

11. When God sees that you have the potential to undertake an inward journey to reach Him, your outside world starts turning upside down.

12. 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.

13. You keep blaming Karma but never take a look at your desires. Are they your own desires or copied from others? Maybe your Karma is good enough to fulfill your own unique desires but not for copied generic desires.

14. You will get it when you can handle it.

15. A happy child starts crying if you talk to them in consoling tone. All the consolation being served to you in the name of hope and positivity is keeping you continuously in victim mode.

16. A pencil doesn't know what to write. A paper doesn't know what to be written. But if they both are surrendered to the writer (God), something beautiful gets written through them.

17. A tree trunk is not a perfect cylindrical or rectangle shape. It's irregular and it's beautiful. That's how life is. Make peace with the mistakes and foolishness of past.

18. 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.

19. Be it sorrow or happiness, you get as much as you can handle.

20. Do this experiment: After reading a message, don’t reply immediately. Wait for 24 hours. The reply would be different from what you would have replied immediately. Maybe you won’t even reply. Words hypnotize us and make us react like a drunkard. Silence dehypnotizes us.

21. Either it shall pass or you will get used to it.

22. Having an opinion on something is not wisdom. Everybody has opinions. Seeing something in its entirety is called wisdom.

23. Human mind also has teeth and digestive system. Most people use just teeth. They react immediately to everything. They don't digest. Teeth can only chew things. To extract nutrients, you need to swallow and digest.

24. If and when they change, I will change my opinion about them."No. If you want them to change, first you have to soften your opinions about them.

25. If someone has died, don't get consoled by readymade theories of soul and rebirth. Find the truth yourself. Where do people disappear all of a sudden? Are they still there in the past? What is past? What is Time? Is there anything beyond Time? Or 'nothing'? Or God?

26. If the tree of life has given you the task of collecting leaves from the ground, do it blissfully. What you see as waste may be the compost that can help the fruits ripen early.

27. If you are proud of some things in life, you are also tired of some burdens of life. Pride and burdens go hand in hand. Let go of pride to get rid of burdens.

28. If you are proud of some things in life, you are also tired of some burdens of life. Pride and burdens go hand in hand. Let go of pride to let go of burdens.

29. If you take life as a battle, be ready for the bruises. If you take it as a game, be ready to experience highs and lows. If you take it as a circus, sit back and watch different acts being performed by everyone.

30. If you're feeling low, take it as a cloudy day. There shall be rain and a new level of clarity shall emerge.