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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
- Eugene O'Neill
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
- Arthur Hoppe
The best state of mind is balanced by two extremes. But we, driven by brain, try
to embrace one and discard the other. It is this discrimanatory practice that has
brought all our good - bad, sin - virtue into existence.
- Deep Trivedi
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
- Peter Shaffer
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
- Deep Trivedi
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