Monasteries Quotes

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During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes… — Nhat Hanh
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story. — Gwyneth Paltrow
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore… — Edmund Hillary
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. — Ernst Toller
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your… — Jay Michaelson
If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries?… — Tim Ward
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of… — David Mamet
I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for… — Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by… — Herman Gorter
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in… — Dalai Lama
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the… — Bronislaw Malinowski
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief,… — Steve Jobs
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the… — John Muir
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack… — Frederick Lenz
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the… — Frederick Lenz
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or… — Frederick Lenz
There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I… — Frederick Lenz
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which… — Quentin Crisp
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English… — Benedict Cumberbatch
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. — John Keats
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.… — Neal Stephenson
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired… — Anthony de Mello

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