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“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”

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Author:Rumi

“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”

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Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.”

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"”

Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

“A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.”

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Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.”

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Author:Beverley Baxter

“Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.”

“Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.”

“The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Fast is the food that nourish the spirit.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you wish to grow in spirit, feed on the spiritual food, the HOLY WORD.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Rotla (bread) and vegetables (food) are to be eaten for the purpose of putting out hunger, not for taste. If you eat for taste, then you will not like to eat. It will become a thing to suffer (ved). This world is rotting due to the three sufferings (due to the 3 veds (genders)).”

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Book:Brahmacharya: Celibacy

Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“If these three genders (veds) were not involved in the play of nature, then you would be able to remain separate in the worldly life for sure. All the play is within the three genders (ved). If these three were regarded as food (nourishment), then there was no problem. But they have been called sufferings (ved).”

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Book:Brahmacharya: Celibacy

Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy

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