Monk Quotes - Page 13

• She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.

  Regina Doman

  Country, Fall, School

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• The more you know, the less you carry

  Mors Kochanski

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Patagonia

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• Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Philosophy, Winning, Self

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• High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

  Douglas Adams

  Horse, Bored, Sat

  Douglas Adams (1991). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

  Chick Corea

  Night, Men, Play

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• Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.

  John Cassian

  Men, Law, Circles

  John Cassian, Aeterna Press (2016). “John Cassian Collection [4 Books]”, p.671, Aeterna Press

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• At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Mother, Simple

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• If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

  Martin Luther

  Heaven, Has Beens, Ifs

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• One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

  Dalai Lama

  Christian, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, People, Parent

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

  Gautama Buddha

  Past, Views, Effort

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• I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ifs

  "Thich Nhat Hanh | Interview by Oprah Winfrey, courtesy of Super Soul Sunday". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.awaken.com. August 29, 2013.

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• Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.

  Robert Thurman

  Hate, People, Unhappy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Struggle, Teaching

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

  Dalai Lama

  Party, Order, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went out and felt the ills of the community around you. Instead of retreating to a monastery, you were out in the streets working. And he's been a great help to me, just reading his book, so I don't feel helpless about what I can do about all the violence around me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Reading, Buddhism

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.

  Henry VIII of England

  Soul, Gone, Body

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• Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Doe, Quasars

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Crazy, Buddhism

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• I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

  Burton Cummings

  Buddhist, Buddhist Monk, Havens

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• Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

  John Burdett

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Talking

  "Thai Air. John Burdett on 'Bangkok Haunts'". "Austin Chronicle" Interview, www.austinchronicle.com. June 15, 2007.

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• I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Years, Reconcile

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• I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

  Antony Gormley

  Catholic, Educated

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• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  Laurence Sterne

  Holy Days, Miracle, Saint

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.144

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