Alignment Quote by Frederick Lenz

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Tenzin Palmo

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

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,…

— Gautama Buddha

The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon…

— Dogen

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.

— Frederick Lenz

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

— John Welwood

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

That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of…

— Seraphim of Sarov

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

— Poemen