Quotes About Yama

#1. When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Donna Farhi

#2. The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to ... deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment, ...

Gautama Buddha

#3. Yama servants known as Shravan and Shravani.

Jaipal Singh Datta

#4. Farmers scrape a living out of that cold earth, planting on sheltered slopes facing south, combing the yama for fleece, carding and spinning and weaving the prime wool, selling pelts to the carpet-factories.

Anonymous

#5. Let us see rather that like Janus - or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death - religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy ...

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. The elephant goad represents Yama, the god of death and bondage. Ganesha thus acknowledges the life-giving aspect of nature as well as the life-taking aspect of nature.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#7. You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn't be too upset when it leaks.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. When you need them, agents are at your disposal. And any special gear you'd like?" "As a matter of fact... Yes. I'll give you a list.

Nathan Edmondson

#9. When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

Nathaniel Branden

#10. I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.

Emraan Hashmi

#11. There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.

Al Ritter

#12. Without subtext you have a flat, linear world; everything is literal, everything spoken is meant. With subtext the writer is able to access the gap between language and thought, and

John Yorke

#13. When I was eleven, I just got good.

Bobby Fischer

#14. The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

George Meany

#15. First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it.

Roger Zelazny

#16. The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

Evangeline Lilly

#17. Dreams drawn from the sheath.

R. Scott Bakker

#18. In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.

Kenneth Fisher

#19. The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

Stephen Kinzer