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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
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
- Steve Maraboli
The knowledge in your mind is immeasurably greater than all that you learnt, in all manner of ways, since birth, as a child, at school, in life, in the world, in your profession. This immeasurable knowledge sometimes percolates into the dream experience; sometimes it comes as intuitive ideas, as creative feelings.
- A Spiritual Leader
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
- Salvatore Palladino
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
- Shannon L. Alder
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