Real education is only possible by always keeping in touch with nature.
-Swami Vivekananda
Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see how life continuously has led me to the people I need to meet, to the situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be.
I’m not interested in the well-being of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in their own way - each one is unique.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
-David Nicholas
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo