Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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When I am not working, my family are the most important.
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I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
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It is now clear that the controversial practices of companies that provide directories and an easy interface to libraries of unlicensed music are in fact detrimental to the growth of the music business and those artists whom they claim to support.
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Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.
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I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
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There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
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If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.
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I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.
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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
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In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: ‘If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?’ (Rom.8:31, 32).
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I'm a huge lover of going to the theater and having that experience of people in the room. Any time you go to an experience like this, you hear it in a different way because sound systems are different.
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Be your own kind of beautiful.
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But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
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Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
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For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?
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Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.
