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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- André Maurois
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
How strange are we? We don't have claws like a tiger, yet we growl at others,
don't have venom like snakes, yet harbour animosities; don't have wings like
birds, still keep flying in the fantasy world. When you do not possess any human
quality, how will you achieve success in life?
- Deep Trivedi
To have a body is to suffer. Those who understand this, detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
- Bodhidharma
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
- Sri Chinmoy
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
- G. K. Chesterton
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 just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
- Khalil Gibran
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