“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!. — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
“The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one.… — Faith Erin Hicks 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
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers?” — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When monks deny the existence of the I, they are not denying the existence of humanity or of man in general; but… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin,… — Carrie Gress 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
“One of the best things about road-tripping with monks is that monks are used to repeating chants over and over and over,… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“At that time the authorities used to love to set up their concentration camps in former monasteries: they were enclosed by strong… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
“People point less often to these monks, and even pass them over in silence, and how surprised they would be if I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
“We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men… — Anne Rice 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
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 slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Far below, making their way through the swinging glass doors, a retinue of Buddhist monks entered the Shopping Center. They approached in… — Jeff Greenwald Copy Share Image
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“Meditation handbooks from Sheer Peaks monasteries advised the practitioner to envision herself midcopulation with a sensory lushness from which even an Iskari… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands. — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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