“ Monastery you can't retire it's forever, there isn't music, films, parties and other crazy stuff. It's about spiritual life... It becomes harder and harder! Deyth Banger
“ He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands, Ellis Peters
“ Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguish tightens your throatAs if you were never to be loved againIf you lived in the old days you would e… Guillaume Apollinaire
“ The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added pow… Tony Hendra
“ You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be? Faith Erin Hicks
“ Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it. Dean Koontz
“ Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me. Jean Moreau
