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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
Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error.
- Kahlil Gibran
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
- Erich Fromm
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
- Elizabeth Hawes
God first created light, all men are born out of it. The whole world came out of a single spark; who is good and who is bad? The Creator is in the creation, and the creation in the Creator, He is everywhere.
- A Spiritual Leader
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