The Sacred Art of Fasting by Thomas Ryan

Inspiring personal reflections, helpful advice, and encouragement from people who practice fasting answer your questions, allay your fears, and reveal how you too can safely incorporate fasting into your spiritual life. And it doesn’t have to mean going weeks without food.The Sacred Art of Fasting invites you to explore the practical approaches, spiritual motivations, and physical benefits of this ancient practice by looking at the ways it is observed in several faith traditions.

But fasting doesn't have to be intimidating. Fasting is a religious tradition practiced in some form by nearly. ―from chapter 9Though fasting is practiced in some form by nearly every faith tradition throughout the world, it is often seen as scary or something only for monastic life. The Sacred Art of Fasting: Preparing to Practice a book by Thomas Ryan 25,435,236. It is a wellspring for the spiritually dry, a compass for the spiritually lost, and inner nourishment for the spiritually hungry.' It is a discipline of self-restraint, a ritual of purification, and a sanctuary for offerings of atonement. The Sacred Art of Fasting: Preparing to Practice by Thomas Ryan Paperback 15.99 Hardcover 27.99 Paperback 15.99 eBook 11. It is an invitation to awareness, a call to compassion for the needy, a cry of distress, and a song of joy.

Open your mind and heart and discover how the sacred art of fasting can strengthen your spiritual appetite'Fasting as a religious act increases our sensitivity to that mystery always and everywhere present to us….

The Sacred Art of Fasting by Thomas Ryan