“The fast — restraint from food and water — is a practice that helps us to know the body intimately, most particularly through its limitations and weaknesses, though not always. Sometimes the body without food is actually a stronger body, sharper, keener, more in tune with the word around it.
“And the body is like the year, the fasting month moving across it, shifting and changing throughout one’s life time. The body is like the fasting month itself, with its own periods of activity and restraint, its own nights of revelation.
“The body is like a day: it begins with the darkness of evening, ends with the ebbing of light.
“Contains its own being nestled secretly inside.”
Kazim Ali, Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice
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