Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
-Viktor Frankl
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
When you are doing what everyone else is doing, why cry and crib...? What is
happening to all, is happening to you as well.
-Deep Trivedi
If you want to leave the world better than you found it, then use your heart of compassion and your life of concern.
Rain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through the currents of this grey day.