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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
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
- Charles Edward Montague
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
- Shannon L. Alder
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.
- Plato
"Anger" and "Love"...are the only two centres of energy in human life. Religion,
education and society have killed both these in a human being which is why, the
entire mankind is compelled to lead a life of helplessness.
- Deep Trivedi
Slowly and steadily cleanse the mind; sharpen the intellect, purify the senses, and win grace.
- Vedas
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
- Henry Ford
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
- Lisa Tawn Bergren
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