Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?

Nirmala Srivastava

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• Meditation

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• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

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• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

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• I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

  

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• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

  

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• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

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• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  

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• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

  

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• He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.

  

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• I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

  

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• I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

  

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• You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Desire
  • Spirit
  • Meditation