“Eco listens with interest to the story of a lost manuscript for which people are being killed. He sees a man walk… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… — Philip Kapleau 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
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
If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the… — Denis McDonough Copy Share Image
My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. — Matthew Shipp 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
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people. — Dogen Copy Share Image
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I felt so liberated when I first saw Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' at BAM play, because for me this… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
