Rowan Williams

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

English Theologian

Alain de Botton

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

English Writer

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

English Actor

Edmund Hillary

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

New Zealander Explorer

Ken Follett

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

Welsh Author

Quentin Crisp

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

Basil Hume

On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an excellent thing. In other words, it is the community that matters.

English Clergyman

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Swiss Critic

Thomas Merton

I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

American Author

John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

English Poet

A monastery is a secluded place where life is dedicated to religious practice, away from society.

Religious Seclusion

A monastery includes communal areas where residents live, pray, and often work together.

Monastic Community

Many monasteries are historic and can be significant tourist attractions with cultural importance.

Historical Sites

 important monasteries and temples in the region so it's clear that there is a connection here that is we know there's some kind of connection but the character of that connection is really somewhat unclear history only takes us so far they say well of course there was trade up and down this valley but what do we know about the antiquity of this trade how well does it connect anything

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 Long story short, I ended up laying my old self to rest. Selling off the food business and living in a Buddhist monastery for three years, where I learned to sit and studied compassion and how my mind worked. What I discovered was a connection to food and heart that I had ignored.

Derek Sarno: The many...

 if that is what I had to contend with whenever I wanted to write something down really the least of my worries would be eros and scribes did make plenty because it was tiring work lots of hand cramps it took ages there in freezing-cold monastery is very dimly

The evolution of the...

 aware of this monastery my entire life that it existed and that one day I was gonna go visit it my great-grandparents kept having daughters and they wanted a son so they went to this monastery named after a st. Behnam and they prayed to

See How Life Has Changed...

 had asked permission from a rinpoche in a monastery and I spent four months living in that monastery peeling away the cliches peeling away to the essence for me it was also an excuse to start a long life relationship to Buddhism and I

National Geographic...

 anybody here go to a monastery that's not the point but I do think it's only by stopping movement that you can see where to go and it's only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about

Where is home? - Pico...

 And, of course, I'm not suggesting that anybody here go into a monastery. That's not the point. But I do think it's only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it's only by stepping out of your life and the world

Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...

 monks and monasteries. And yes, we celebrate our national dress, too. This is why I can wear my gho with pride. Here's a fun you're looking at the world's biggest pocket.

This country isn't just...

 out there in the gloom and the drizzle are the mountains the forests and the savannas where the maned wolves live and this wonderful building is the monastery

Braving a Thunderstorm...

 the experience is illuminating Ireland has produced a plethora of castles churches and towers its monasteries became important centers of

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