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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
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
- Mortimer Jerome Adler
Trusting oneself helps you gain self-confidence whereas leading life depending
upon others, be it even God, dwindles your confidence. And only those who are
full of confidence become successful in life.
- Deep Trivedi
The blossom of love will make the air fragrant; the river of love will murmur along the valleys; and every bird, beast and child will sing the song of love.
- Vedas
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without
any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical
person".
- Deep Trivedi
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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