Challenges Quote by Frederick Lenz

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

— Ethiopian Proverb

I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.

— Tenzin Palmo

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and…

— Nhat Hanh

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

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

I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest…

— Nhat Hanh

I mean the people who seriously, seriously play devote their lives to it sort of the way monks do. I mean you don't date,…

— David Foster Wallace

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

— Nhat Hanh

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

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of…

— Frederick Lenz

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

— Tsem Tulku

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen