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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton
We can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
- Jean Paul Sartre
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
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
- Richard Wright
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
- Paul Brunton
God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.
- Jaachynma N. E. Agu
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