Quotes Tagged With :monks

The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I....

Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church....

...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...

The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or....

The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order....

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku.....

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a....

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition....

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.