Quotes by : Nanamoli Thera

Don't build yourself an ivory tower" the moralists say. But I am an ivory tower by the mere fact that....

Wandering across a city — walking often quite alone, down dark alleys, through unfrequented districts....

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women actors on it" says Shakespeare. But actually only....

It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly....

The more I examine and observe experience (What else can one do? Build castles?), the more I find that....

Sati—sampajanna ("Mindfulness and clear comprehension") should be examined carefully from the point....

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does....

When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover....

A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it?

Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once....