I can't do much socially because money is tight, so I've been somewhat isolated, like a monk.
Although the inward Seed can work in a solitary person, Friends do not meditate like monks, isolated in their cells.
He was isolated and not surrounded by monks, as he would have been at Rumtek.
PARO, BHUTAN — In recent years, a small number of privileged tourists have journeyed to the reclusive tiny kingdom of Bhutan to witness the yaks roaming the mountains and the monks shuffling through isolated temples.
And the Irish monks were not as isolated as people have hitherto imagined either.As Mrs Brown points out, there is a short but intriguing list of facts that link the ascetics of Egypt and the western fringe of Europe.
A Japanese Buddhist monk spends his days counseling isolated people who are thinking of committing suicide.
Having decided to live out the rest of his life in a monastery, he chose an area with the most inaccessible ones: Lake Tana, where for half a millennium monks, priests and nuns have lived isolated on about 20 islands.
The idea that college has any connection to the real word is hard to defend when the job market demands that educators live like monks -- poverty-ridden, itinerant, and isolated from the real world.
Not far from the monastery is a cemetery for monks, while farther afield small sketes stand isolated.
From 1164 an isolated Becket spent six frustrating years in exile, living as a monk in France, till a patched-up reconciliation with Henry enabled his return to Canterbury, just months before his murder.
A term used specifically for nuns, not for monks, it refers to a community of religious women who live isolated from the outside world, not to the enclosed life of the individual recluse.
