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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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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… — Ibn Arabi
- We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of… — 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… — 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… — Rajneesh
- A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond… — Rajneesh
- The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — 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… — 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… — Ken Follett
- There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he… — 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… — 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… — Stephen Batchelor
- Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson