Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of the universe is that God is the Father and we are His children. We are all created as children of God.
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it
-Havelock Ellis
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
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.