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How much suffering and fear, and how many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the “I”, what should I do with this great demon?
- Shantideva
First keep yourself in peace and then you will be able to bring others to peace. The peaceable man does more good than one who is very learned.
- Jesus Christ
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
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
- Anne Rice
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
- John Lancaster Spalding
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
- Haruki Murakami
Cosmic consciousness is consciousness of the Divine in the entire universe, in all things, in all the world, in all nature.
- A Spiritual Leader
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