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When it comes to material food, if you eat too little, you will remain hungry like the crow and suffer ill-temper and anemia; if you eat your fill, your body will incur the penalty of indigestion.<\/p>\n

Partake of God’s food, that easily digested nutriment, and ride like a ship on the spiritual ocean. <\/p>\n

Be patient and persistent in fasting, be always expecting the Food of God. <\/p>\n

For God, who acts with goodness and is long-suffering, bestows His gifts on those who are expectant. <\/p>\n

The full-fed man doesn’t wait expectantly for bread, wondering whether his allowance will come soon or later;<\/p>\n

but the foodless man is always asking, “where is it?” and expecting it hungrily and seeking and searching for it. <\/p>\n

Unless you are expectant, that bounty of manifold felicity will not come to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Jalaluddin Rumi, compilation The Essential Rumi<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

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When it comes to material food, if you eat too little, you will remain hungry like the crow and suffer ill-temper and anemia; if you eat your fill, your body will incur the penalty of indigestion. Partake of God’s food, that easily digested nutriment, and ride like a ship on the spiritual ocean. 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