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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
- Ambrose Bierce
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 don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.
- Francis Crick
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows, like a shadow that never leaves.
- Gautama Buddha
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
"Truth" is not an act done at the physical level or an act performed driven by
emotions. Truth is the outcome of that particular action. If someone has used
abusive language for your betterment, then how did he abuse you?... He has
only desired a positive change in you.
- Deep Trivedi
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