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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
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
- Robert H. Schuller
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
- Eugene O'Neill
Just as the soft rains fill the streams, pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings.
- Anonymous
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
- A Spiritual Leader
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