Monk Quotes

225 quotes by 163 authors

One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was… — Gautama Buddha
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to… — Gautama Buddha
How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as… — Gautama Buddha
There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no… — Gautama Buddha
When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish… — Gautama Buddha
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. — Gautama Buddha
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer… — Alexander Herzen
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft — John Coltrane
Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses,… — John Coltrane
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its… — Pope Francis
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If… — Jerome Rothenberg
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — Miles Davis
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer
I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk.… — Thomas Merton
Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'. — Dexter Gordon
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all… — Miles Davis
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel… — Roy Haynes
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of… — John Lewis
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. — Matthew Shipp
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I… — Randy Weston

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