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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
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
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.
- Gloria Tesch
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
Concerned alone with the upholding of the world, you should act. Whatever the best man does, others do that also. The world follows the standard he sets for himself.
- Srimad Bhagavad Gita
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritually, the yellow colour is a sign of prosperity; it is the colour of love.
- Swami Sivananda
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