Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

Nirmala Srivastava

• Meditation
• India
• Flow

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• I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

  

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• I cannot abide being bored.

  

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• I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.

  

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• I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

  

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• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

  

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• Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

  

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• Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

  

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  

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• To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

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• Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

  

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• In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

  

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• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

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• Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

  

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  • Time
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• We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Government
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• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

  

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• You can never overlook a guy.

  

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• But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.

  

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• I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

  

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  • Pages

• I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.

  

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• Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

  

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• When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self by working on the external manifestation of that thing in the world. And in fact, there may be no other way. You can sit in meditation for a long time and be blind to huge wounds in yourself, and it's only when you're engaging with the world that the wounds become visible, externalized.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Long
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• If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • True
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• It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Meditation
  • India
  • Flow