No Thought Quotes

“Every time you feel sad, you become a little silent Now your mind has started associating silence with sadness. Be silent when you are happy. When mind starts associating silence with happiness, going into meditative silence becomes easier.”
― Shunya

“To detach from your character, you should first know it fully -the dark side as well as bright side. It doesn’t mean that you should try everything in the world. To know itself, a tree doesn’t need to get hit by an axe at every inch of its being. The air around it can make it feel how far its branches go. When you are in a position to do something and do it, you only get to know one side of you. When you don’t do it, you get to know two sides of you -the one that wanted to do it and the other that didn’t.”
― Shunya

“The new trend of capturing pics instead of enjoying the experience is not new. Human mind has been doing that for ages. Your mind tries to capture the experience by naming, defining, judging, comparing and categorizing everything. As a result, your soul misses the live dance of colours, sounds, shapes and sensations happening before you.”
― Shunya

“All routines are boring, be it routine of a rich person or poor. All moments are interesting, be it a moment of a rich person or poor. Live in the moment.”
― Shunya

“Most people don’t want solution of their problem. When someone rants about their problem, imagine someone sitting in a cinema hall and ranting about the villain. They are fully engrossed in this endless movie since many births.”
― Shunya

“Peacock is dancing.” These words can’t show you the dance that I am seeing right now. They can only invoke your past memory when you had seen a peacock dancing.

Words always keep you in the past or future. Only silence can let you enjoy the present.”
― Shunya

“A movie is keeping your mind stimulated 24-7. Characters of this movie are your neighbors, relatives, colleagues, celebrities, politicians. And don’t blame media or internet for this It’s been happening since ages. Maybe the pace was slow in old times but so were the minds.

Nobody is forcing you to watch this movie. But the urge is so strong that your clever mind is inventing fancy excuses to keep watching it: “Justice”. “Social Activism”, “Political awareness.”
― Shunya

“When you listen to the sound of waves at the beach, you feel relaxed because your mind doesn’t have to agree, disagree or judge that sound.

Human beings are nothing but waves of five elements. Why does your mind go in overdrive when their sounds fall in your ear? You will feel tremendously relaxed when you stop agreeing. disagreeing or judging every human sound that falls in your ears.”
― Shunya

“Silence is the background music that you can play anywhere and make any ambience your own.”
― Shunya

“This universe is like a company. Being detached doesn’t mean quitting the job. It means being at a position where you do your job and the entire universe seems to be helping you in your job.

It doesn’t mean being the CEO or a king. You can have any role and still be in that position. A detached farmer does his job and the entire universe, including the king and the clouds, seem to be working for him and helping him in his job. On the other hand, for an attached king, even his family members work against him.”
― Shunya

“Mind happily consumes information but it resists transformation. The day you allow yourself to be transformed, a Guru will appear before you in visible or invisible form.”
― Shunya

“If you play your role well in whatever script life has given you in the present moment, you will get signed for a better script in the future.”
― Shunya

“By the time you have described a moment in words, it has passed away. Instead of talking about dead moments, let us birth a new moment in silence.”
― Shunya

“Entire internet is a digital copy of the world. Don't confuse it with the world. Similarly, thoughts and words are just a linguistic copy of the world. Don't confuse them with the world.”
― Shunya

“Suppose a Sun many times brighter than our Sun comes up in the sky. After we get used to its light, it goes away. Then our Sun will feel like moon to us and what we call as “light” will seem like darkness. So light and darkness are relative terms. Darkness is just less light.”
― Shunya

“Spiritual knowledge is like a detergent powder. It is added to take out the dirt. It is not supposed to stay inside along with the dirt.”
― Shunya

“All emotions and feelings are tasty if they are drank and digested. They turn nasty because we keep chewing them with the teeth of reasoning and thought.”
― Shunya

“Enjoy the present moment. Enjoy the journey. Because you are moving on an ENDLESS hill road. You are coming back to the same point again and again, maybe slightly higher or lower.”
― Shunya

“When you started the journey of this life, you learned your mother tongue so as to communicate with the external world. Even before that you knew a language that you have been using since eternity. It’s your Divine-mother tongue: Silence. Use it to communicate with the divine.”
― Shunya

“Search the most weird thing on Google. You will find some people somewhere doing that thing. Your mind is even more advanced than Google. Whatever you want to believe, it can churn out logic to support that. Look at human history, most brilliant minds have died debating over their beliefs and no common conclusion has been reached so far. And it will never be reached.

Mind is tricky machine that can complete any task that you assign it Give it the task of dissolving itself and it will dissolve itself with its own logic. Then you can experience the oneness - the Paramatma.”
― Shunya

“The knowledge a student seeks is already inside the school bag she carries. She goes to school to transfer that knowledge inside her mind. At the end of the year, the entire bag is supposed to become part of her mind.

Your ideas and beliefs about God are like a school bag you carry around. They are supposed to burn and become an integral part of you. Don’t fall in love with the bag. It is supposed to go.”
― Shunya

“Your mind is like a device you are wearing. Play with it instead of being played by it. You can easily play with one setting of this device: Focus. Focus only when required. At home, you are relaxed. But your mind is narrowly focussed on TV, fridge, phone and bed. De-focus and take in the whole surrounding. Feel the air touching your skin. hear so many sounds reaching your ears, sit on the floor and see your room without focussing on particular objects.”
― Shunya

“Open eye meditation can give you sudden enlightening experience. Just sit still in nature and stare. You may get sudden realization that your body is not separate from the surrounding.”
― Shunya

“Like the small moon eclipses the Sun, your mind is eclipsing your soul, which shines inside you with the power of a thousand Suns.”
― Shunya

“In literature, words are used to give pleasures to your mind. In spirituality, words are used to take you beyond mind into the ultimate bliss of wordlessness (silence). Many seekers mistake spirituality as literature. They just enjoy the use of poetic words and stories.”
― Shunya

“Do this when you go for a walk: Notice colour of a random object and then try to spot the same colour elsewhere around you. Then repeat with some other colour. You will notice so many things that your mind often ignores and so many patterns that your mind would dismiss as coincidences.”
― Shunya

“No statement is true. Silence is the only truth. But to guide you towards eternal silence, a Guru has to make statements. Some Gurus make sensational statements to awaken people because people are deep sleep on the couch of their belief systems.”
― Shunya

“You can have experiences of all flavours in life. But you will remain thirsty and restless until you get the plain water of nothingness.”
― Shunya

“Give yourself fully to something - be it ritual or logic, a god or human, passion or asceticism. Don't save even a bit of yourself otherwise the magic won't happen.”
― Shunya

“Seeing is almost always fogged up by thinking.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana