In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years… — Saul Rubinek Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I… — Hans Zimmer 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
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in… — Dalai Lama 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
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious… — Edward Gibbon 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
“Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
I wasn't expecting [the Monk competition] would necessarily do that. So I just did what I did and some good things continued… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, their journeys are opposite of each other's: Aang was a peace-loving monk, through and through, whereas Korra… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
“He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Your body is a hyacinth, Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers. Our silence is a black cavern, From which a… — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed.… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“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
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
When I became a monk, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made… — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
![“I wasn't expecting [the Monk competition] would necessarily do that. So I just did what I did and some good things continued to happen and some doors continued to open and that kind of led me into the different associations that I developed in my 30s and some records that I've made on ArtistShare…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/685/jon-gordon-1655_association_i-wasn-t-expecting-the-monk-competition_885761.jpg)
![“[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went out and felt the ills of the community around you. Instead of retreating to a monastery, you were out in the streets working. And he's been a great help to…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/470/sandra-cisneros-862_active_thich-nhat-hanh-the-one-that-revolutioni_675085.jpg)
![“This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.” quote by Scott McClanahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc5/scott-mcclanahan-14739_analysis_this-thelonious-monk-the-life-and-times_1349956.jpg)
