This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature. — Angelus Silesius Copy Share Image
I'm no saint with this stuff or a monk, but I'm not going to train someone unless I want to be around… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he’d written became known as… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm very gratified that I had my little 15 minutes,or whatever [at the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]. It certainly didn't make… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices,… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend… — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
![“[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went out and felt the ills of the community around you. Instead of retreating to a monastery, you were out in the streets working. And he's been a great help to…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/470/sandra-cisneros-862_active_thich-nhat-hanh-the-one-that-revolutioni_675085.png)
![“The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/15b/edward-gibbon-710_barbarians_the-peace-of-the-eastern-church-was-inva_2066326.png)
![“I'm very gratified that I had my little 15 minutes,or whatever [at the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]. It certainly didn't make me rich and famous. But it helped a little bit for a while.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8fd/jon-gordon-1655_bits_i-m-very-gratified-that-i-had-my-little_744660.png)
