Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
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I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
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At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
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The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.
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We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
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When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.
