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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
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
- Robert Holden
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you are dissatisfied or unhappy with any of your act or thinking, then too don't
try to change it, you will fail miserably. Transform your nature, your action and
thinking will change by themselves.
- Deep Trivedi
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
- Dodinsky
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