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[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens. - T
[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens. – Thomas Merton

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton

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Fasting strengthens control over our appetites, thus contributing to self-mastery. – George Romney

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Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. – Ezra Taft Benson

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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. – Athenaeus of Naucratis

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More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. – Mahatma Gandhi

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