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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
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
- Robert Brault
If an evil man comes and creates a disturbance, you should hold your peace. You must not angrily upbraid his; then he who has come to curse you will merely harm himself.
- Scriptures
The root of complex gets strengthened by competitive teachings. Nothing in this
world can be more foolish than comparing two things or two individuals.
- Deep Trivedi
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously.
- Eckhart Tolle
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
- Steven Grayhm
What do you think of God, the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, He's not a think, he's a feel.
- Paul Frost
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