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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.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
- Bertrand Russell
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- W. H. Auden
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In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
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Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
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