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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
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
- John Borrowman
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
The root cause of all the miseries of human life is the chaotic activities of his
'mind'. Hence, the only way to eliminate the "pains and miseries" from this world
is to properly educate him about the functioning of 'mind'.
- Deep Trivedi
Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
- Radhika Coomaraswamy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard
In life, if you observe carefully, no one minds doing the wrong deeds or saying
wrong things, but definitely take exception to being understood wrong. Isn't it
astonishing?
- Deep Trivedi
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
- Rob Sheffield
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