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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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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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A fast is better than a bad meal. – Irish Proverb

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Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem. – Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program fo

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

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