"God has given all creatures life, but it’s up to them to make
efforts to become more alive each day. To become more alive
means to give your light and warmth. It is so good to meet
people in whom you sense everything is alive and full of light!
We love a tree for its fruit, we love a spring for its flowing
water, we love flowers for their colour and scent. In the same
way, we love those who open themselves to give something pure,
luminous and warm. So, learn, then, to cultivate this source of
life within yourself. Make a habit of smiling, of looking at
others with love; try to extract a few particles from your heart
to send to others. You are the one who will feel richer and
happier.

All religions have recommended fasting as an exercise in
purification. But fasting must not be understood only on the
physical level. If impurities have taken hold in the physical
body in the form of physical problems, a physical fast will be
able to get rid of them. But impurities can also take hold in
the astral and mental bodies, in the form of coarse feelings and
desires, and erroneous thoughts and judgments. Now, these
thoughts, feelings and desires are dark entities that force
humans to absorb the foods that they, the entities, need. Yes,
thoughts, feelings and desires are living entities.
In order to get rid of these entities, people must stop feeding
them; in other words, they must try hard not only to cease
entertaining inferior thoughts and feelings but also to replace
them with pure and luminous ones. If they deprive these entities
of their food, the entities will be forced to fast and, faced
with the threat of death from starvation, they will leave. That
is also how you should understand fasting, by transposing it to
the different planes of being."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov