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“Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined in the mind and body, hurts that act through barely conscious habits and reactions. This work is a part of that heroic labor, a cousin to sitting meditation, to singing bowls and chanting monks.”

Mind Body Belief Hurt Half Path Taken Meditation Habit Singing Conscious Sitting Labor Reactions Remembered Heroic Bowls Cousin Monk Mind And Body Chanting

Author:Ron Kurtz

“At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.”

Heart Bird Monk Librarian Gardener Watchers Spinsters

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.”

Self Desire Existence Depends Absence Lust Restraint Monk Thyself Adversaries Chastity Self Restraint

Author:Rumi

“Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.”

Long Term Return Permanent Long Term Compliment Homosexual Monk Nun Bachelors Spinsters

Book:tha naked ape

Source: tha naked ape

“I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.”

Heart Soul My Heart Walking Rain Sight Corners My Soul Pounds Monk Prostitution Robes Girdles Walking In The Rain

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.”

World Persons Spiritual Order Personality Individuality Hiding Interiors Monk

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.”

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.”

Habit Monk Knights Spurs

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.”

“Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.”

Children Spiritual Masters Reverence Spiritual Life Monk Guru

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.”

Teacher Catholic Professors Monk Minnesota Indebted Georgetown

Author:Denis McDonough

“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.”

People Knows Stills Whole Numbers Influence Effects Eras Swings Monk Boogie Bebop

Author:Mose Allison

“First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.”

Firsts Religion Religious Situation Inclination Monk

Author:Young MC

“Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.”

Ifs Mind Made Self Philosophy Body Winning Psychology One Thing Security Mindfulness Medicine Fruit Profit Possession Insight Senses Release Realization Pleasant Thrill Toil Monk Soma

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.”

Three Water Dry Bowls Monk Begging Liquid

Author:Satish Kumar

“So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.”

Kind Age Nine Nonviolence Monk

Author:Satish Kumar

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