Monk Quotes
225 quotes by 163 authors
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past…
— Jack Kerouac
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I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than…
— Evagrius Ponticus
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A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
— Evagrius Ponticus
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Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of…
— John Conyers
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Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music…
— Jason Epstein
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Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.
— Benedict of Nursia
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A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma
— Tsem Tulku
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Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.
— Ronnie Lott
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Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk…
— Miles Davis
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The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
— Francois Rabelais
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Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the…
— Hermann Hesse
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There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and…
— Charles Bukowski
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My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both…
— Ibn Arabi
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Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's…
— Bai Juyi
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Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and…
— Gautama Buddha
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A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Monk Quotes
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