which their souls long. They never want anything that will harm them, sometimes it is the simplest thing which will make them happy; their innate timidity, which has kept them repressed all their lives, has at the same time kept them from developing their biggest selfhood; they need a larger fling into experience, and fasting opens the door to larger opportunities. What they call liberty will be to the really free people simply a smaller form of bondage.
If you belong to their class, then while you fast whatever it is that will make you altogether happy, madly inspired, sweet, tender and loving, seek that thing and build into your consciousness all the life more abundant that you can. Pour a world of sentiment into the old dwarfed, thwarted selfhood which you are fasting to displace. Sentiment is the food of the soul.
The one who cannot thrill with the rapture of being alive and who does not have the passion of his selfhood, is dead before he starts. It takes warm, pulsing life, inflowing through every channel and outflowing over many lines, before the body, mind and envioronment will become one.
“It something to have been the best beloved for a little while, to have walked hand in hand with Love and to have seen his purple wing flit once across your smile” and it is something more than a mere passing self-indulgence to stand where we take our wants masterfully in our hands and declare for freedom, self-satisfaction
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