Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.
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While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Justice is not a gift; it’s a lifestyle, a commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam—‘repairing the world.’
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Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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Maximum individuality within maximum community.
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There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
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Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.
