Zen Monks Quotes

#1. My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.

Tom Robbins

#2. I dream of a planet where the science of the mind, brings the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran, and all other scriptures together and binds them with the golden twine of harmony.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House's Easter Egg Roll. It's nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

Jay Leno

#4. Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Vincent De Paul

#5. My life and world was transformed by reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

Andy Warhol

#7. My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.

Kevin Plank

#8. Like pebbles in a bag, the monks polish each other.

Unknown

#9. As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.

Thomas Hardy

#10. In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Crystal shoes
And a mare to ride on,
A milk white mare,
And a silver woven in my hair.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#12. if you see for yourself, hear for yourself, and enter deeply enough this seeing and hearing, all things will speak with and through you.

Jane Hirshfield

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

Santoka Taneda

#14. When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

Matsuo Basho

#15. My poetic aspiration
Is to become,
A Jack of all styles
And a master of pun.

Clive Blake

#16. When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

Frederick Lenz

#17. From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

Frederick Lenz

#18. I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

David Zindell

#19. I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Allan McNish

#20. Sometimes when our lives are out of control, the only thing that makes us feel secure is to swing in the opposite direction. To control every last detail.

Elle Casey

#21. When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.

Frederick Lenz