Dear lord Quote by St Teresa of Avila

“Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?”

— Jack Kerouac

“Sent to the Monk" Night falls and the empty intimacy of the whole world fills my heart to frothing. The past has trudged to…

— Mary Ruefle

“...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing…

— John Geddes

“Creatures perish in the darkened blind of quest, knowing intimations. Guessing and dreaming they pursue the real, faces turned toward the sky whispering secrets…

— Mansur al-Hallaj

“Where are your books? - that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men…

— William Wordsworth

“The world circles us with light. Yert during every moment of life we are entirely lit from within. - The Tattooed Monk”

— L.G. Bass

“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold -…

— Howard Carter

“The journey of the dark night of the soul is where we learn who we are, without people telling us.”

— Adèle Green

“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which…

— Victor Hugo

“The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices, his dark…

— Michelle Frost

“There is the incense of wisdom, whispering, to speak of grace in the dark/there is the scent of primal animals, grappling with the glory…

— R. Paul Sardanas

“If you’re given the opportunity to look deep enough, you can see a person’s spirit in their eyes but usually, they are guarded, kept…

— Kristen Ashley