Kevin Parker Quotes

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

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

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

I try to be more mindful and less greedy.

We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Less is a bore.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

I'm not an ascetic.

I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.