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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
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.
- A Spiritual Leader
There are many things which are difficult for any wise man to understand... Like
the rewards that are bestowed by God in heaven on performing good deeds; the
same when done here are condemned by the religious heads, but then who are
they to condemn it?
- Deep Trivedi
In life, there is nothing that you can simply gain. Here, for every gain, you always
have to lose something. Hence, the people who are apprehensive of losing in
every small matter...can never gain something big.
- Deep Trivedi
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
- De Finod
The present moment is indeed a ‘present’ from the Divine… Life as it is happening now, learn to appreciate it, rejoice in it.
- A Spiritual Leader
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
- James Russell Lowell
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