Amma Quotes

“As Amma used to say, the good thing about the truth is it’s true, and there’s no arguing with the truth.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption

“Don’t spit down my back and tell me it’s raining.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.”
― Kami Garcia

“In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.”
― Amma Sri Mata Amritanandamayi

“Her face is as bright as a full moon,
always gentle,
always changing, but
predictable.
Like our moon,
she only shows us one face.
The strong one.”
― Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

“Well, you mind you manners and don't raise your voice. You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“No, lei non ha mai menzionato nostro padre come spauracchio. Le piaceva farci paura di suo.”
― Hamid Ziarati, Salam, maman

“Therefore, in this seemingly patriarchal mystery tradition (Sûfîsm), we see that woman is the Hidden Initiatrix, the Shadow Guide, the Blackness that births the Light. 'Da tariki, tariqat' - "In the darkness, the Path," is a Sufic maxim. The void has been described as a dark cave, a shadowy mihrab, the Concealed or Secret Radiance, the Black Stone of the Ka'ba, Ghayb ul-Ghaib ( Mystery of Mysteries ), Amma (Darkness), and returning to the Womb of Fatima ('Alaiha Assalam) the Mother.”
― Laurence Galian, Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess