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
Bourbon's the only drink. Youcan take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years… — John Michael Hayes Copy Share Image
Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits.… — John Grant Copy Share Image
For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we… — Rajneesh 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops,… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
