“What of ourselves? In actuality the monk’s journey is everyone’s journey, though in our frenetic world of activity and distraction we often… — Monks of New Skete Copy Share Image
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein 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
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union… — Gautama Buddha 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 concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart.… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our… — Dalai Lama 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
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“Ye sey right sooth; this Monk he clappeth lowde. He spak how Fortune covered with a clowde I noot nevere what; and… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows… — Marcel Duchamp 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
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“But being a monk is just one more impossible thing, like traveling to the past or having Finn here forever, because to… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Naskar has many zones – neuroscientist, dervish, monk, decolonizer, sacred feminine, and countless others I lose track of – my nondual works… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Love God's people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we are no holier than those that are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Godmind, Sonnet 2101 Come, look into my eyes, you'll smell the soil from Tabriz, chiming with the whirlwind of Konya. Come, peer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached.… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I have already told you, Mr. Monk, I have no idea where my brother is. Not that I would necessarily tell you… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
Monks congregate like dogs in a kennel, From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge, Is one the course of the wind,… — Taliesin Copy Share Image
“It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize… — Ron Suskind 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
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
