In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
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A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part… — Frederick Lenz 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 really want to help people because it seems to be there's this mental block and people think in order to lose… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. I'm not an acting… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better… — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
As I tell my children, the first thing is always health. Get sleep, don't party, don't do drugs or drink. If your… — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“I’ll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That’s my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar,… — Jason Epstein 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
What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.'… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“To ... to ... What the heck to call a duke who ’comes a monk?” “Brother?” Colin ventured. Will shook his head.… — Patricia Coughlin Copy Share Image
“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and… — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?" The monk said,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
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