“When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.” — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
“When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
“The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
“In fact, according to physicians, the functioning of the digestion depends less on the brain than on hormonal mechanisms and autoregulators. However, during a fast, the digestive system gets an increasing rest. About ten hours after a meal, the contractions stop and the feeling of hunger disappears; five or six hours later the glucose stops coming directly from the intestines… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share
“When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
“Instead of destroying and appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world.” — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
“In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.” — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
“Eating three times a day means takingon, almost without respite, the work of assimilation.” — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
