The Transformational Power of Fasting Quotes

“Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal

“Our relationship to food is a microcosm of all that we have learned about loving and being loved, about our self-worth. It is the stage upon which we reenact our childhood. If we were abused, we will abuse ourselves with food. The degree to which we are violent, abusive, self-punishing is in proportion to the degree of violence, abuse, and punishment we received. We learned how to do it by having it done to us.2”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation

“To live in right relationship with Creation means honoring the creation of the body itself, recognizing its inherent sacred nature, and developing a deep, trustworthy relationship with it. For there is only one place in all the Universe that has been made especially for you, and that is inside your own body.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation

“Deep fasting puts the body into a state that is normally only experienced during sleep, one in which the liver and other detoxification systems can focus exclusively on detoxification, repair, and regeneration.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation

“Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the Earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning. To become rooted in ourselves, in the world, we have to grow down as much as we grow up. To find the fertilizer that feeds our growth, we need the rich dark loam that lies within our deepest selves.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation

“Remember Anger is energy to solve a problem. It often signals that there has been an infringement of our essential nature. Fear is a signal that there has been some change in circumstances that directly affects our survival. Sadness is letting go of something. Joy is the natural response to healthy functioning of our living selves.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation

“I discovered, in time, that the small infant I had been was still alive within me and that I was not, that no human being is, a single personality. During this internal exploration of my self I found that all people are, in a certain way of thinking, born multiple personalities, that the infant, the four-year-old, the teenager, all of the people we once were are still alive inside us. When we live at home it is our parents’ job to care for and respond to all these parts of ourselves. Our job as we age is to come to know ourselves, to make relationship with these parts of ourselves, to care for them, and to find peace with them. It is one of our most fundamental jobs as human beings to hear the voices of these parts of ourselves, to learn their needs, to meet them, to become our own best friend, our own parent. Only then, I later learned, can we be prepared to parent our own children. Otherwise our children only become opportunities for us to work out unresolved problems in ourselves, and the family parenting dynamics that we ourselves suffered from are passed once again into a new generation.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Transformational Power of Fasting: The Way to Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Rejuvenation