Fasting

Earth above Serpent

There is fasting during a time of plenty.
The elders veil their light but it still shines.

When we deprive ourselves of food in a time of plenty, it is a conscious and deliberate act, different from starving involuntarily due to a famine. The modest intake of food can be a form of fasting as well. The purpose of fasting is for our health; but, it also has a spiritual counterpart. By deliberately fasting the senses, as in meditation, the light of the spirit radiates the more fully through the countenance, as seen in the faces of the elders.

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