The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
Many a times, a person even feels the presence of "Third Force" in his life, but linking it to God and destiny, he fails to recognize it.
-Deep Trivedi
In an evolutionary context, development has no end. That means we can always develop more, further, higher and deeper. In Traditional Enlightenment, it’s possible to become ‘fully enlightened’. In Buddhism, they call it ‘cessation’ or ‘the end of becoming’. Evolutionary Enlightenment is about infinite becoming for eternity.
A true 'lover' is the one, in whom his beloved can find not only a lover, but also a
friend, father, guru, brother, son, all of them.
-Deep Trivedi
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
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.