Make a habit of smiling, of looking at others with love; try to extract a few particles from your heart to send to others

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.