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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
Love is the scent with the lotus born. It is the silent choirs of petals singing winter’s harmony of uniform beauty. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets – sun and moonlit.
- A Spiritual Leader
Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the centre of their being.
- Rumi
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have no laws at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
- Michel De Montaigne
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
- Anne Sexton
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