Monk Quotes

225 Monk quotes by 163 unique authors

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives… — Kim Ki-duk
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. — Ernst Toller
A habit does not a monk make. — Francois Rabelais
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
A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to… — Tim Ward
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang… — William Hazlitt
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. — Loren Eiseley
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined in the mind… — Ron Kurtz
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience… — Herman Melville
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not… — Unknown Author
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to… — Desmond Morris
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under… — Gustave Flaubert
The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly… — Thomas Merton
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight. — Geoffrey Chaucer
In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who… — Radhanath Swami
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus. — Mata Amritanandamayi
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St.… — Denis McDonough
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my… — Mose Allison
First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation. — Young MC
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to… — Gautama Buddha
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food. — Satish Kumar

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