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Food helps to refine our senses. People who work in order to develop their taste, to refine it, are rarely very much attached to food. It is not through attachment to food that they do it. It is for the cultivation of their senses, which is a very different thing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/23-february-1955#p5</ref>
=How to Eat Consciously ?=
With food, we daily and constantly take in a formidable amount of inconscience, of tamas, heaviness, stupidity. One can't do otherwise—unless constantly, without a break, we remain completely aware and, as soon as an element is introduced into our body, we immediately work upon it to extract from it only the light and reject all that may darken our consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/19-april-1951#p9</ref>
=='''Food as a Small Concern=='''o be always thinking about food and troubling the mind is quite the wrong way of getting rid of the food-desire. Put the food element in the right place in the life, in a small corner, and don't concentrate on it but on other things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p11</ref>
To be always thinking about food and troubling the mind is quite the wrong way of getting rid of the food-desire. Put the food element in the right place in the life, in a small corner, and don't concentrate on it but on other things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p11</ref> ==''Food as an Offering=='''
When eating one aspires that this food may not be taken for the little human ego but as an offering to the divine consciousness within oneself. In all yogas, all religions, this is encouraged. This is the origin of that practice, of contacting the consciousness behind, precisely to diminish as much as possible the absorption of an inconscience which increases daily, constantly, without one's being aware of it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/19-april-1951#p9</ref>
=='''Detachment and Equanimity=='''
It is not by abstaining from food that you can make a spiritual progress. It is by being free, not only from all attachment and all desire and preoccupation with food, but even from all need for it; by being in the state in which all these things are so foreign to your consciousness that they have no place there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/12-june-1957#p6</ref>
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