What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway… — Ben Aaronovitch 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
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
A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond… — Rajneesh 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
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
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
In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of… — Dalai Lama 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
We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also… — John Muir 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
