Conclusion Quote by Muriel Barbery Download Open image “Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.” — Muriel Barbery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conclusion Monk Postmodern Thinker Thinking
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at pleasing people… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more… — Thomas Merton 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
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach the teachers; and those who can't teach the teachers go into… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology . . . we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a license given… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I was having… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions.… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
When there is a mission before you, you see it from its beginning to its conclusion. — Jesse White Copy Share Image
Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters? — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
