Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.
Quotes to Explore
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
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Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
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The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.
