“I’m the impulse before the language, I’m the reason before the science, I’m the pulse before the poetry, I’m the kernel before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking… — Frederick Lenz 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
This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It… — Robert Thurman 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
Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
“I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly. "Live," said the monk. "You shall be revenged," said the fox.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but… — Kylie Tennant 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
