To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
“...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
Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
