Monk Quotes

Monk Quote of the day

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

The more you know the less you talk.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

A habit does not a monk make.

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

The more you know, the less you carry

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.