Desire Quote by Dogen

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then…

— Tenzin Palmo

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…

— Gautama Buddha

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation…

— Umberto Eco

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but…

— Gautama Buddha

“Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever of you harbors ill will…

— Gautama Buddha

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just…

— Kylie Tennant

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

— Ana Castillo

It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Purity is not an end in itself. Purity permits the personality to live in full expression of love to God and man. It is…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop