Monk Quote by Kathleen Norris Download Open image “Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.” — Kathleen Norris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Monk Poet Poetry World
“Monks and writers lead very similar lives. We spend our best time in retreat from the world, anxious to make something of our rich… — Rougeau a Benedictine Monk Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.” — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . .… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba,… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
