Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
-
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
-
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
-
I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
-
I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
-
I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
-
The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
-
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
-
He that is jealous is not in love.
-
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
-
I love penguins.
-
I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
-
I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
-
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
-
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-
I love to play gigs.
-
To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
-
There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
-
I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
-
What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
-
I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
-
The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
-
I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
-
You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
