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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
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
- Vedas
It is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
- Lord Byron
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; in states and in the lands of the potentates; in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
- Virchand Gandhi
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
- Charlie Fletcher
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