Fasting
Spiritual discipline through abstaining from food across traditions.
“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting.”
Fasting as private discipline
“O you who believe, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you might become righteous.”
Ramadan fast (Sawm)
“You shall afflict your souls... This shall be a statute forever... to make atonement for the children of Israel.”
Yom Kippur fast
“Yoga is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats too little, nor for him who sleeps too much, nor who stays awake too long.”
“The restraint of speech is good; good is the restraint of mind. The restraint of body is good; good is restraint in all things.”