Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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Drag has always made me feel less scared.
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
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Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.
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I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.
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How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.
