Monk Quotes

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.

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

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.

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

At Length the Fox turnes Monk.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

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

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

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

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

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

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.

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

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

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

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

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.

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

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

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.

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.

I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.

I think many monks hesitate to change things.

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

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

I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.

Jesus is compelling in the way the discovery of the stars or the experience of a one-of-a-kind romance is compelling. His presence draws you in to the deep.

It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something abou

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west."Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

I was more than my limitations

I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?

Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't...

Let's stop and start thinking.

She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre.

ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.

I’ll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That’s my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ...

Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can.

Monk is helper who to help us in spiritual way.

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.