Balance-in-life Quote by Dada Bhagwan

“What is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures)? It is that in which the mind, speech and body become one…

— Dada Bhagwan

“If there are vishayas (objects of sense pleasure) in the mind, they are all vishayas of the pudgal (Complex of intake and output; body…

— Dada Bhagwan

“food should not only satisfy hunger, it should feed the soul, nourish the body and delight the senses.”

— Karista Bennett

“This is the nonduality principle of Buddhism: there is nothing to throw away. If a person has never suffered, he or she will never…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't…

— Nhat Hanh

Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

“If anything, other than our own ‘Real Self’, remains in our memory, it is all vishaya [subjects of pleasures that take one away from…

— Dada Bhagwan

Hunger is a hopelessness and a curse not to entertain any one with...

— Melchor Lim

“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.' What does it mean? Let me put it negatively like this. We are not…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Suffering is the nature of this world. It is the golden standard by which all things are measured. It is not happiness that sets…

— Addison Moore

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve…

— Mark Kurlansky

suffering sweetens the reward

— F.E. Higgins