CHAPTER V
The Emotional Fast
There are two sides to the Emotional Fast and each faster must determine for himself on just which side is his particular need.
There are those who need the fast for emotional discipline and still others who need it for complete and perfect self-expression. There are many who have never in their lives done the things which they really wanted to do; they have shut out all sentiment, all softness, all sweetness,–never loafed with their souls: “They have starved their heart; walked where beauty was a thing apart; sought to face in straitened bounds the soul which should be free,–treading the dusty road of common sense while all the forests sang of liberty”.
These are longing with a mighty desire to be fed just once from the hand of self-satisfaction and to do, say and be just what they would love to be. To those we say “Go have they will, whatever it be, and though there lie at last but wrecks along the shore of thy tempestuous sea, yet thou shalt know that thou hast lived thyself, and peace will come to thee”.
We need have no fear in sending these timid creatures out to seek that thing of things for
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