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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
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Gustav Jung
He who is in the fire, and he who is here in the heart, and he who is yonder in the sun - he is One.
- Upanishads
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
- Jim Rohn
When the entire world is running the race of wealth, how could doctors protecting
the human body lag behind? All the parameters of our blood tests have been
devised in such a manner that some or the other irregularity would surely appear
in the report, so that their medicines continue to sell.
- Deep Trivedi
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- Thomas Hardy
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
- Eric Idle
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
- Sigmund Freud
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