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
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
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. — John Ortberg 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
Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he… — Anthony de Mello 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
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
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
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
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that… — Basil Hume 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful… — Bronislaw Malinowski 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
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
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
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
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
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
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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
Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
