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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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One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation. – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency. – Plato

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

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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world. – Al-Ghazali

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