Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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I really hate to write.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
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I love colors... as much as I love concepts.
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You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
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I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.
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For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.
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Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.
