Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.
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Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?
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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
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The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
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I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.
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Each and every one of us is a leader. Some of us just don't know it yet.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
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I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.
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The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
