Top 18 Zen Monk Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. You let go of my hand
to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we are apart
Munia Khan
#12. As she watched her friend disappear down the sleepy street of dusty sunshine ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. 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
#14. I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.
H.C.Paye
#15. The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.
Sam Brownback
#16. My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
George Papandreou
#17. 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
#18. Well, they're magical wardrobes, of course, although they don't lead to any fairy wonderlands.
G. Norman Lippert
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