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Letter "T" » The Monks
«We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.»
«[Its] language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.»
Author: Clifford Longley
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Keywords:
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bared,
barer,
bares,
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baring,
cell,
language,
monk,
The Cell,
The Monk,
The Monks,
uninviting
«The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he»
«If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?»
Author: Anton Chekhov
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Keywords:
call out,
clear,
cry,
direction,
directions,
forward,
go in,
monk,
opposite,
precisely,
revolutionaries,
revolutionary,
The Monk,
The Monks,
The Word
«There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions»
Author: Anais Nin
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Author)
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About:
Freedom
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Keywords:
artist,
Between Two Worlds,
freedom,
kinds,
monk,
possessions,
powerful,
renounces,
renouncing,
rich,
The Monk,
The Monks
«Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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Editor,
Humanist,
Priest)
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Keywords:
bellied,
bellies,
belly,
crimes,
crown,
guiltier,
guilty,
He Is Guilty,
Luther,
Monks,
pope,
popes,
Pope I,
strike out,
struck,
The Monk,
The Monks,
the pope,
The Popes
«My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.»
«There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.»
«Thirst for existence, O monks, has a specific condition, it is nourished by something, it also does not go without support. And what is that nourishment? It is ignorance.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
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existence,
Monks,
nourished,
nourishment,
specific,
specifics,
support,
The Monk,
The Monks,
thirst,
thirsted,
thirsting
«As a Buddhist monk my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Keywords:
Buddhist,
Buddhists,
Buddhist monk,
caused,
concern,
extended family,
extends,
inflict,
members,
monk,
of their own,
pursuit,
selfish,
sentient,
sentient beings,
The Monk,
The Monks