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....

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

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

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the....

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

You no longer speak of your old friends, your Council, your home. I fear that you are forgetting them,....

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

The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

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