Kali Quotes

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.

Jennifer Beals

Mistake, Winning, Battle

Interview with Canadian Press, February 17, 2011.

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Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.

Martin Cruz Smith

Stars, Eye, Night

Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

Roger Housden

Energy, India, Example

Roger Housden (1996). “Travels Through Sacred India”, Thorsons Pub

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It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

Zeena Schreck

Spiritual, Age, Quality

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This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Darkness, Age

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History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

Yukio Mishima

Blood, Humanity, Mouths

Yukio Mishima (1974). “The Decay of the Angel”, Random House

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You might wish to try Kali's mantra. Kali is another celestial being. She offers very fast spiritual progress through intensity. Her mantra is "Kring!" When you chant Kring, chant it very intensely and sharply. Only chant Kring when you are in a high meditation.

Frederick Lenz

Spiritual, Buddhism, Meditation

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Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.

Frederick Lenz

Mother, Years, Cry

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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

Kali Hawk

People, Firsts, Quirks

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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

Naomi Wolf

Ideas, Skulls, Battle

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My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.

Swami Vivekananda

Son, Soul, Passing Away

Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth.

Tom Robbins

Spiritual, Believe, Dark

"The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.

Ian McDonald

Age, Mercy, Meek

Ian McDonald (2009). “Cyberabad Days”, p.89, Hachette UK

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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.

Kali Hawk

Fun, Thinking, Perspective

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Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

Radhanath Swami

Fighting, Habit, Vicious

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an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

Angelina Jolie

Mother, Embodiment, Earth

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We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Dark, Childhood

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Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

Kali Hawk

Hands, Laughing, Training

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Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Reflection, Views, Europe

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In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

Radhanath Swami

Civilization, Atmosphere, Standards

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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

Kali Hawk

Character, Play, Actors

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What happened?" -Ethon "Obviously something was hungry and bit the bear." -Kali

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Bears, Hungry, Happened

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My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.

Bob Marley

Energy, Lambs, Bread

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One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

Leonard Sweet

Religious, Sweet, Jesus

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The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddesses’ night out on the battlefield.

Kevin Hearne

Sports, War, Night

Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.21, Del Rey

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