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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
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
- Robert Brault
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
- Sabah Carrim
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
- Bible
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own first.
- Ben Sweetland
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George Smith Patton
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
As soon as the aircraft was invented, there were people who came forward to
claim that it was possessed by 'Rama' long ago. But the question is, what do we
gain out of these claims? Even today, we have to travel in the aircrafts invented
by 'Wright Brothers' only.
- Deep Trivedi
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