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...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
- John Geddes
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
- José Saramago
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
- Sri Chinmoy
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