Age Quote by Doreen Virtue

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo

“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

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a…

— Shane Claiborne

“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination…

— Daniel G. Opperwall

I still have the same beliefs as when I was in the monastery.

— Justo Gallego

“By the early fifth century, the Church that had begun as a tiny group of fishermen and other poor people meeting in modest abodes…

— Norman F. Cantor

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

— Benedict of Nursia

“From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs…

— Victor Hugo

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to…

— Shane Claiborne

“Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in…

— Sufjan Stevens

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

— Satish Kumar