If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going read more

I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises
at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing..
must read more

It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises
at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing..
must drive carefully in each others' corridors.

Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron.

Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he read more

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

"meat produced under current factory farming conditions
(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such read more

"meat produced under current factory farming conditions
(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms of
Jewish law.)"

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.