Quotes About Tamas

#1. You cannot even imagine how sick I become; it is suffocating. People are so deep in tamas, unconscious; and they do not even know it.

Anonymous

#2. Rajas is activity and Tamas inertia. Sattva is the balance of these two, for only consciousness can balance kinetic energy with potential energy.

Robert E. Svoboda

#3. Abandon pride, which is the same as Tamas-guna (darkness), rooted as it is in ignorance and is a source of considerable pain; and adore Lord Shri Rama, the Chief of the Raghus and an ocean of compassion.

(Page 787).

Tulsidas

#4. It is Einstein's famous equation E=MC^2, in which E is energy (rajas), M is mass (tamas), and C is the speed of light (sattva). Energy, mass, and light are endlessly bound together in the universe.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#5. Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme.
Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind's agitations, vikshepas are quietened. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#6. Tamas had heard that every genius was equal parts madness. He

Brian McClellan

#7. A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. You seem to be in unusually good spirits." "I do?" Tamas said. "I haven't said two words." Prime cleared his throat. "I can sense it about you. It's in the air. Like a first-year student who knows he's going to be every professor's favorite. It's annoying.

Brian McClellan

#9. Let the Kez come," Tamas roared. "Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!

Brian McClellan

#10. I ain't the Princess Pea But someday I will be, The Pea, ha-hee. Someday, I will be.

Kate DiCamillo

#11. Decent is the last way I want you, she said, skimming her fingers over my stomach, my lower stomach. My lower lower stomach, AKA the last part of exposed skin that, had my towel been hanging any lower, would have been considered indecent.

Nicole Williams

#12. All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

Julian Sands

#13. He did look like an ancient Viking. If they'd had a Viking Vogue magazine in their day, he'd have been on the front cover.

A.Z. Green

#14. Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#15. I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

Pele

#16. I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam

Charlaine Harris

#17. And then he kissed me, and when the haze of lust cleared and my knees found their strength, and all I could think was Oh Shit

Vi Keeland

#18. If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

Tamas Vasary

#19. Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always.

Tamas Vasary

#20. Thats the thing about people who mean every thing they say. They think everybody else does too.

Khaled Hosseini