Monk Quotes - Page 2

• Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hypocrisy, Religion, Half

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• I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mind, Desire, Beginners

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh,the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk:The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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• No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

  George Harrison

  Grace, Needs, World

  Source: www.prabhupada-books.de

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• To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Practice, People

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh,the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk:The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  Pablo Picasso

  Confidence, Mother, Encouragement

  "Life with Picasso" by François Gilot, (p. 60), 1964.

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• I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk. ... My dear brothers, WE ARE ALREADY ONE. BUT WE IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOT. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are

  Thomas Merton

  Brother, Unity, Imagine

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• He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Wrath

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• Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

  Walter Scott

  Animal, Trusted

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.2069, e-artnow

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• He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

  John Green

  Stars, Doms, Tasting

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.749, Penguin

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• There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Artist, Two

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• At Length the Fox turnes Monk.

  George Herbert

  Foxes, Length

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

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• The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

  Francis Parkman

  Strong, Ambition, Passion

  Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”

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• The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

  Austin O'Malley

  War, Gunpowder, Sermons

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• Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mean

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• The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Years

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• In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snowboarding, Surfing, Rama

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• I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Thinking, Age

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• In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Journey, Practice

  "A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

  Marvin Barnes

  Basketball, Player, Basketball Player

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• If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Kindness, Teaching

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• When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".

  Frederick Franck

  Hands, Evil, World

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 22, 1985.

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• There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord, Put me to witness much for many years, And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk, Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp, And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Book, Years, Light

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Snowboarding

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• As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

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• Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

  Dogen

  People, Desire, Doe

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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