Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master:… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
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
Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument,… — Mimi Rogers Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar,… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
I mean the people who seriously, seriously play devote their lives to it sort of the way monks do. I mean you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere,… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and… — Miranda Hart 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
“All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item that she throws… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. — Harsha Bhogle 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
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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