Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
-Benjamin Franklin
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
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.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use
-Samuel Johnson
The measure in which a person is blind in the field of religion, he is equally blind
in understanding all the other truths of life. This is the reason why the world is full
of mentally and intelligently blind people.
-Deep Trivedi
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
-T. Harv Eker
Why don't you simply understand that events are happening outside and your life
is within you. Then whatever happens outside, why should your life be affected
by it ? It does, because you forcibly perceive yourself being attached to it.
-Deep Trivedi
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston S. Churchill