“THE MONASTERY IS A SCHOOL—A SCHOOL IN WHICH WE learn from God how to be happy.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
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
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. — Martin Luther 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
“For two years I’ve been a monk but the only monastery I’ve lived in is my own mind.” — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
“A witch, a Rider, a dragon, and a god walk into a monastery… There’s got to be a good joke in there… — Deborah Blake Copy Share Image
“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
“I remembered something Father Michael said to me a the monastery. 'The human soul is meant to expand. Things that once captured… — Susan E. Isaacs Copy Share Image
The Garden of Gethsemane is halfway up the Mount of Olives, where Christ grappled with his courage during those last dark hours… — Carol Drinkwater 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
The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in… — Sean Brady 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
“Instead of seeing the spiritual life as one that can exist only if it is enclosed by the walls of a monastery,… — James Martin Copy Share Image
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used… — Kabir Bedi 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
“St. Benedict and every Benedictine who has followed (one prays) understood that the monastery is not a place to hide from problems;… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“--while the sun and wind played gently in its spreading branches; the bells of the Donskoy monastery would sometimes float across--tranquil and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“St. Galgano was a 12th-century saint who renounced his past as a knight to become a hermit. Lacking a cross to display,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“It was so cold. In the monastery. Sometimes the wind came from the sea with ice in it... It could freeze the… — Sarah Dunant 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
Penny: Donald, were you everin a monastery? Donald: No, I don't go no place much. I'm on relief. — Robert Riskin Copy Share Image
“Life, U May told her, is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often… — Derek Jacobi 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
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
The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I heard you’d gone into a monastery.’ Tony nodded. ‘I did, only I didn’t stay long. I couldn’t be doing with all… — Wilkie Martin 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
