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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.
- A Spiritual Leader
Worship means reverence and humility. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbour good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
- Bodhidharma
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'
- Stephen Covey
Follow me, and let the people speak: stay still like a tower which doesn’t collapse when a strong wind blows.
- Dante Alighieri
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
- Simone Weil
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