Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate.…

— Frederick Lenz

It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better…

— Frederick Lenz

“One of the great dangers faced by monastic practitioners is that, after a few months or a few years or a few decades, we…

— Michael Casey

Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives…

— Frederick Lenz

Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in…

— Thomas Merton

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

— James H. Austin

“Monastic contemplatives have staked out a clearly limited area to be transformed by contemplation: the monastery. Lay contemplatives face the challenge of transforming the…

— David Steindl-Rast

If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as the life…

— Oleksandr Usyk

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in…

— Quentin Crisp

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

— Ethiopian Proverb

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats