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Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
- A Spiritual Leader
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
- Christopher Rice
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
- Jenny O'connell
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
- Leo Tolstoy
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
- Wilson Mizner
Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight make me a child again just for to-night!
- Elizabeth A. Behnke
All good and important things in life, happen; they cannot be done. Be it the
revolving of the earth or digestion of your food. Be it blowing of the wind or
breathing. Be it even making a melody or a discovery.
- Deep Trivedi
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