Monastery Quotes

46 quotes by 43 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as… — Frederic Chopin
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years,… — Joseph McCabe
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. — Bronislaw Malinowski
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
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. — Ernst Toller
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

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