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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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn, out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
An experience teaches ably the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
- Andre Gide
Every problem that comes in life need not be taken care of by us. Majority of
them are best left to nature's justice.
- Deep Trivedi
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
- Marcel Pagnol
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- Bertrand Russell
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