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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.
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To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
- Jarod Kintz
The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.
- Victor Manuel Rivera
There’s harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction, regardless of fashion or trend.
- Ted Koppel
Hatred never ceases through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
- Dhammapada
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
- Alexandre Dumas
Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.
- Jeb Dickerson
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
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