Zen Monk Quotes

#1. I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

Will McIntosh

#2. Well, they're magical wardrobes, of course, although they don't lead to any fairy wonderlands.

G. Norman Lippert

#3. If God says I'm highly favored, then I will not talk myself out of it. I believe I'm highly favored. If God says the impossible can happen, then I believe the impossible will happen.

Joel Osteen

#4. My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

George Papandreou

#5. The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

Sam Brownback

#6. I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.

H.C.Paye

#7. Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. As she watched her friend disappear down the sleepy street of dusty sunshine ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. You let go of my hand
to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we are apart

Munia Khan

#10. ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)

Lew Welch

#11. more humorous looks. One I noticed actually had been carved into a bat holding a ghost. Artistic, I thought to myself knowing I would never be able to duplicate that. Greg and I walked through the double

Janet McNulty

#12. I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

David O. Russell

#13. I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

Guillermo Del Toro

#14. Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

Ryokan

#16. Therefore, your enemies are not the adversaries who were put there to test your courage. They are the cowards who were put there to test your weakness.

Paulo Coelho

#17. In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it ... For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!

Rajneesh

#18. In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another monk, the latter must call back 'Hi!' without thinking.

J.D. Salinger