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Monastery Quotes

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery Picture Quote #1

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery Picture Quote #1

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk Picture Quote #1

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition Picture Quote #1

I don’t think there’s any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult Picture Quote #1

Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule’s threatening to quit. Why don’t you two try to show the younger guys it can be fun instead of taking a note out of everyone else’s books and letting it drive you insane?-Jonas Picture Quote #1

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The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns Picture Quote #1

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don’t immediately have to pay their way. It’s like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for Picture Quote #1

The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order Picture Quote #1

It is not bad living in a monastery. I’ve done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts Picture Quote #1

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women Picture Quote #1

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns Picture Quote #1

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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love Picture Quote #1

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery Picture Quote #1

When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness Picture Quote #1

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin Picture Quote #1

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself Picture Quote #1

It is not bad living in a monastery. I’ve done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts Picture Quote #1

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You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don’t need a lot of possessions Picture Quote #1

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject Picture Quote #1

An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison Picture Quote #1

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it’s a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it’s a pen that scratches Picture Quote #1

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison Picture Quote #1

I don’t think there’s any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult Picture Quote #1

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Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility Picture Quote #1

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues Picture Quote #1

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I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery (Monastery Quotes) To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery (Monastery Quotes) My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk (Monastery Quotes) To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition (Monastery Quotes) I don’t think there’s any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. (Monastery Quotes) Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule’s threatening to quit. Why don’t you two try to show the younger guys it can be fun instead of taking a note out of everyone else’s books and letting it drive you insane?-Jonas (Monastery Quotes) The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns. (Monastery Quotes) I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don’t immediately have to pay their way. It’s like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for. (Monastery Quotes) The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order. (Monastery Quotes) It is not bad living in a monastery. I’ve done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts. (Monastery Quotes) I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women (Monastery Quotes) The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns (Monastery Quotes) I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love (Monastery Quotes) I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery (Monastery Quotes) When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness (Monastery Quotes) Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin (Monastery Quotes) I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself (Monastery Quotes) It is not bad living in a monastery. I’ve done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts (Monastery Quotes) You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don’t need a lot of possessions (Monastery Quotes) The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject (Monastery Quotes) An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison (Monastery Quotes) Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it’s a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it’s a pen that scratches (Monastery Quotes) You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison (Monastery Quotes) I don’t think there’s any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult (Monastery Quotes) Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility (Monastery Quotes) And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues (Monastery Quotes)