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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Bön texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in… — Anne Klein 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
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
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
Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the… — Janice Galloway 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
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
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
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
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
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
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human… — Gene Logsdon 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
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me.… — Frederick Lenz 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
I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
