Monasteries Quotes

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My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And… — Ibn Arabi
We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is… — Pope John Paul II
Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your… — Farid al-Din Attar
In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first… — Rajneesh
A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can… — Rajneesh
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George A. Sheehan
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and… — Ken Follett
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love… — Anthony de Mello
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea… — Jean Giono
We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy… — Stephen Batchelor
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,… — Samuel Johnson
The BÃ¶n texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in monasteries, libraries and… — Anne Klein
Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who dwell in monasteries,… — Symeon the New Theologian
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising… — Jack Kornfield
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. — Milarepa
I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery. — Tim Roth
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts… — Gene Logsdon
The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get… — Jeffrey R. Holland

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