“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one.… — Faith Erin Hicks Copy Share Image
“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“it became one of the characteristics of Zen monks that they would never approach rulers and statesmen for the sake of worldly… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When monks deny the existence of the I, they are not denying the existence of humanity or of man in general; but… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers?” — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense… — Bobby Sager Copy Share Image
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“One of the best things about road-tripping with monks is that monks are used to repeating chants over and over and over,… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin,… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“People point less often to these monks, and even pass them over in silence, and how surprised they would be if I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
“At that time the authorities used to love to set up their concentration camps in former monasteries: they were enclosed by strong… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
