Finding yourself Quote by Bronislaw Malinowski

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

— Voltaire

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination…

— Daniel G. Opperwall

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in…

— Quentin Crisp

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes

— Tenzin Palmo

Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the…

— Martin Luther

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats

“If you are going to put down spiritual roots, taught Benedict, you need to stay in one place long enough for them to go…

— Rod Dreher

Turn your car into a monastery.

— Robert Barron

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns…

— Edward Gibbon

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo