Monk Quotes - Page 15

• For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!

  Brennan Manning

  Cat, Swimming, Water

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.58, Multnomah

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• This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Generosity, Giving, Alchemist

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• Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are such compelling reading Of course not...but there is a reason. There is a reason Christian monks spend lifetimes attempting to decipher the Bible. There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament. And that reason Robert is that there exist powerful secrets hidden in the pages of this ancient book...a vast collection of untapped wisdom waiting to be unveiled.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Powerful, Book

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• With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, Children, Light

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.25, Om Books International

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• The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Boys, Thinking, America

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• I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Definitions, Jazz

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• For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Wine, Men

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• I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

  Greta Garbo

  Cake, Soap, Pot

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

  Russell Brand

  Different, Married, Persons

  "Uh-oh! Russell Brand 'makes a sex joke about Katy Perry'" by Leanne Bayley, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 6, 2013.

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• Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

  Matthew Shipp

  Music, Names, Perfect

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• There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

  Charles Bukowski

  Believe, Wine, Play

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.182, Canongate Books

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• Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

  Bai Juyi

  Autumn, Dark, Winter

  Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”

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• The more you know the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

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• Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feelings, Perception, Sound

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• A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1386, Manonmani Publishers

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• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

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• Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It's also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

  John Grant

  Beautiful, Aquariums, Leader

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• God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and dispassionate, monks and laymen, wise and simple, healthy and sick, young and old just as the effusion of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of the seasons are for all alike; 'for there is no respect of persons with God.'

  John Climacus

  Wise, Christian, Simple

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• That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Light, Spirit

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• In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Bells, Never Forget, Longing

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• That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

  Satish Kumar

  Morning, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

  Tom Baker

  Believe, Acceptance, Self

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• The solitary monk who shook the world
  From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
  Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips
  In peals of truth.

  Robert Montgomery

  Challenges, Religion, Lips

  Robert Montgomery (1854). “The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...”, p.186

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• Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

  Kathleen Norris

  World, Poet

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• I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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