Re: : A little inspiration for fasting from various sources

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Thank you so much, I read these to my husband as he was eating popcorn right after eating dinner and dessert....lolTricia Trish <glory2glory1401@...> wrote: Men do not die, they kill themselves. -Seneca, Roman Philosopher ---------------------------- Nature cannot be hastened. The bloom of a flower opens in its proper time. - Bruton ---------------------------- The head is clearer, the health is better, the heart is lighter and the purse is heavier. ish Clergyman on fasting, circa 1800 ---------------------------- Living in harmony with the universe is

living totally alive, full of vitality, healthy, joy, power, love, and abundance on every level. -Shakti Gawain ---------------------------- Naure never makes any fuss, and yet it does everything. -Lao-tzu ---------------------------- The freedom and ease you experience during fasting enables you to discover new undreamed depths to the meaning of life. -Herbert Shelton ---------------------------- “Yet even now,” says the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting.” 2:12 ---------------------------- If you would imitate Nature, you should take her simplicity for your model. -M. Sendibogius ---------------------------- Instead of medicine, fast for a day. -Plutarch, Greek Philosopher ---------------------------- I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans! -Novelist Upton Sinclair, a frequent faster ---------------------------- Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach. -Dr. Weir ---------------------------- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ---------------------------- Fasting is cleansing, purifying and restful. -Meir Schneider ---------------------------- When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. - 6:16-18 ---------------------------- To lengthen they life, lessen thy meals. - lin ---------------------------- When it comes to health, nine men in ten are suicides. - lin ---------------------------- Periodic fasting keeps you connected to your body’s natural tendency to cleanse and rejuvenate. -Author Pamela Serure ---------------------------- Fasting is the greatest remedy...the physician within! -Paracelsus, 15th century physician, who established the role of chemistry in medicine. ---------------------------- Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does. -Herbert Shelton ---------------------------- Many dishes, many diseases. - lin ---------------------------- Eat to live, not live to eat. -Ben lin ---------------------------- The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. - A. Edison ---------------------------- Cattle know when to go home from grazing, but a foolish man never knows his stomach’s measures. -Scandanavian proverb ---------------------------- Almost every human malady is connected, either by highway or byway, with the

stomach. -Sir Francis Head ---------------------------- You can do more for your own health and well-being than any doctor, any hospital, any drug and any exotic medical device. -ph Califano ---------------------------- A fast can help you heal with greater speed; cleanse your liver, kidneys and colon; purify your blood; help you lose excess weight and water; flush out toxins; clear the eyes and tongue and cleanse the breath. - F. Balch, MD ---------------------------- Open your mind, for the doors of wisdom are never shut. -Ben lin ---------------------------- Dine with little, sup with less; do better still, sleep supperless. -Ben lin ---------------------------- Eat not for the pleasure thou mayest find herein; eat

to increase thy strength, eat to preserve the life thou hast received from Heaven. -Confucius ---------------------------- Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food. -Hippocrates ---------------------------- Deprivation of food at first brings a sensation of hunger, occasionally some nervous stimulation—but it also determines certain hidden phenomena which are more important. The sugar of the liver and the fat of the subcutaneous deposits are mobilized, as are the proteins of the muscles and glands. All the organs sacrifice their own substances in order to maintain the blood, heart and brain in a normal condition. L Fasting

purifies and profoundly modifies our tissues. -Dr. is Carrel, Nobel Prize Winner, author of Man, The Unknown ---------------------------- The secret of longevity is eating intelligently. -Gayelord Hauser ---------------------------- Living under conditions of modern life, it is important to bear in mind that the preparation and refinement of food products either entirely eliminates or in part destroys the vital elements in the original

material. -US Dept of Agriculture ---------------------------- I humbled my soul with fasting. -Psalm 69:10 ---------------------------- Fasting regularly gives your organs a rest and helps reverse the ageing process for a longer and healthier life. - Balch, MD ---------------------------- Everything in excess is opposed by nature. -Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine ---------------------------- If the stomach is full and busy, then the mind doesn’t like to think. -German proverb ---------------------------- Every study

in longevity shows that frugal eating promotes health and prolongs life. -Steve Meyerowitz, author of Juice Fasting and Detoxification ---------------------------- Everyone should be his own physician. We ought to assist and not force nature. -Voltaire ---------------------------- The heart that loves is always young. -Greek proverb Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Messenger with Voice.

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