Monasteries Quotes

• Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Love, Life, Soul

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• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

  John Keats

  Imagination, Atheism, Literature

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.883, e-artnow

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• In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

  Milarepa

  Heart, Temples

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• To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Retiring, Pure

  Walter Lippmann (1932). “The Stakes of Diplomacy”, p.51, Transaction Publishers

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• Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sound, Needs

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• Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Spiritual, Retreat

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• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, Loneliness, Frustration

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• 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.

  Robert Orben

  Cities, Scratches, Jet Planes

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.266, Doubleday

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• To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Ambition, Sea, Spurs

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Book, Reading, Silence

  "Talks by Krishnamurti in Europe 1962 (Verbatim Report) London, Saanen". Jiddu Krishnamurti's seventh public talk in London, jkrishnamurti.org. June 19, 1962.

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• Turn your car into a monastery.

  Robert Barron

  Car, Turns

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• You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Finding Yourself, Signatures, May

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. The language of magic and gardening. II”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Get Well, People, Perfect

  "Come unto Me" By Jeffrey R. Holland, www.lds.org. April 1998.

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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.

  Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Prayer, Important

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• I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

  Tim Roth

  Believe, I Believe

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• You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

  Martin Scorsese

  Lifestyle, Situation, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Book, Reading, Way

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Jail

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Book, Writing

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

  Herman Gorter

  Russia, Government, Land

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• There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

  Anthony de Mello

  Law, Obedience, Break

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.66, Image

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• We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, People, Balance

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• We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

  David Mamet

  Hollywood, Sinkholes, Aesthetic

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

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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Church, Saint

  English Traits "Universities" (1856)

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• When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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