You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“...as our gaze into the luminous vastness deepens and strengthens, and the prayer word grows quiet, and spiritual practices fall away due… — Martin LairdInto the silent land Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
