Tamas Quotes

“All the variety of species of life created be,
By combination of three basic material energy;
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These Guna modus operandi of material energy,
They are called tamo, rajo and sattva clearly;
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Tamo-guna associated with inertia, ignorance be,
The rajo-guna associated with passion, activity;
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Sattva-guna associated with goodness, harmony,
And all three of them associated with thinking truly.
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― Munindra Misra, Goals of Life

“Aux trois gunas correspondent des couleurs symboliques : le blanc à sattwa, le rouge à rajas, le noir à tamas ; en vertu du rapport que nous indiquons ici, les deux premières de ces couleurs symbolisent aussi respectivement l’autorité spirituelle et le pouvoir temporel. – Il est intéressant de noter, à ce propos, que l’« oriflamme » des rois de France était rouge ; la substitution ultérieure du blanc au rouge comme couleur royale marque, en quelque sorte, l’usurpation d’un des attributs de l’autorité spirituelle.”
― René Guénon, Spiritual Authority & Temporal Power

“The three attributes, (Triguna) of Preservation (Sattva), Creation (Rajas), and Destruction (Tamas) are manifested in the activity of a man’s life. A man’s activity is colored with one of the three attributes and by its color the activity is recognized and read. God, the Absolute, is beyond any kind of activity.”
― Sri Jibankrishma or Diamond

“Egoic tendencies along with the rajas and tamas qualities cloud the intellect and obscure clear perception and discrimination. Hence, we cannot realize that we are not the ego but the light of Consciousness which is ever-present, peaceful and blissful.”
― Atman Nityananda

“The packet the girl had given him smelled wonderfully of cake and spice; and he wondered who she was, or what he had done to deserve her attention. Other girls were giving out gifts of cakes or garlands to their sweethearts-but he was notoriously, famously shy of girls-everyone teased him for it, she intended to give it to Bogdan, that was most probably the answer.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“The slide was a roaring in his ears and every handhold moved with him, slipping and tumbling as he went, down and down into choking dust.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“Goblins came from deep and unfriendly places, they were clever and they came in armies, that was what he knew from gran’s tales. Sorcerers and wicked powers used them to fight their wars.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“What had happened this side of the mountains?”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“The stones in his dream echoed with drums.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“He had found his land of once upon a time, but it was all dark, everything was grim and magical things lived here, oh, yes-trolls and witches. Of gran’s stories-at least there were pine groves, and this brook which the goblins had not so far fouled. That was true. So he could still believe in her, for what little good those stories were.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“His dream of last night came back, when he was wide awake, people and disaster and stones riven with light.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“Looking about him at the trees, at a woods pathless to his eyes-where, indeed, was he?”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“He tried to think what to do, but when he shut his eyes to think he saw a dark tower, surrounded by goblin armies, saw war, men and goblins, a queen against a queen, not knowing how he knew that. He saw the great mirror cracked, and all the world rippled and changed like a reflection in water. Images flitted by, true or false, or what had been or what would be, he had no comprehension. What was happening in this world and the other tumbled event over event in confusion: he saw Lady Moon, in thinnest crescent, shimmering on a mountain lake. A goblin warrior stood on its dark and reedy shore, a knight whose countenance changed from fair to foul with the waxing and waning of the moon’s reflection, with never a sun between.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“The boy is not a killer. He hasn’t the heart to be killer.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror