Monk Quotes - Page 11

• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Reality, Passive Resistance

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• Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

  Thelonious Monk

  Mean, Jazz, Drummer

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• How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Color, Language

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• Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Powerful, Hypocrite

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• Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Squares, Games

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• The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

  Francois Rabelais

  Evil, Sick, Would Be

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

  Kurt Cobain

  Gay, Trying, Becoming

  Interview with The Advocate, www.queerty.com. 1993.

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• The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.

  Jon Gordon

  Doors, Competition

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• I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.

  Jon Gordon

  Play, Guy, Competition

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• I am a simple Buddhist monk.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Simple, Buddhist Monk

  Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron (2017). “Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Character, Thinking, Age

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• Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Silly, Simple

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• ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

  Charles Fourier

  Soldier, Firsts, Etc

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• I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

  Petra Haden

  Wells, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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• This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.

  Scott McClanahan

  Book, Perfect, Anecdotes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Thinker, Conclusion

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• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  John Michael Hayes

  Running, Drinking, Years

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• What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

  Voltaire

  People, Atheism, Candide

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.192, Penguin

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• Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to put his sandals on his feet, and suddenly he saw the devil in the form of a man sitting in the corner of his cell. The devil was also putting on his sandals. He said to the monk, "Are you leaving here because of me? Well then, wherever you go, I will be there before you."

  Ignatius Bryanchaninov

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Creating, Lifetime

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• I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

  Jared Harris

  School, Waiting, Awful

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• As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

  Jerome Rothenberg

  Sex, Taken, College

  Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• All hoods make not monks.

  William Shakespeare

  Appearance, Hood

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, Samuel Weller Singer, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.184

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