Fasting and my spiritual awakening - Trinidad & Tobago Express Newspapers



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Apr 24, 2023
This article makes a great point in regard to Fasting, which many religions have but which few participants rightly understand, and fewer than that partake of. Fasting is a means of connecting with the Spiritual Self, or with one's god or goddess. Through physical deprivation, one is brought closer to death--even just superficially, in the case of short fasts--and becoming closer to death, one becomes closer to one's Spiritual Self. Depressingly, nowadays, Fasting is seen as a inconvenience at best, or at worst as some archaic superstition that 'educated' people have no need of. As this article shows, Fasting can remind one of one's connections to one's Faith, or--even better in my eyes--of the deprivation and need experienced by those less-fortunate on a daily basis. What is inconvenient for us is reality for so much more of the world today. I remember literally getting sick to my stomach as I heard some Christian men who were praying on a particularly important matter bitching about their need to Fast to help increase the spiritual power behind their request. It showed me just how lucky, and how selfish, people can be.
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