Begging Quote by Satish Kumar

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

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of…

— Nhat Hanh

“Buddhist Monk: "Keep your eye on what's for supper.”

— Tenzo

Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

“This is not a begging bowl. I found a human skull and out of the human skull I made this begging bowl. It has…

— Osho

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny…

— Boyd K. Packer

“I’ve heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many meals, whereas…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.”

— Mary DeTurris Poust

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

— Pope Francis

“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at…

— Tahir Shah

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and…

— Elisabeth Elliot