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.

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

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

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

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

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole....

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

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

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