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Meditations on a Fast

Meditations on a Fast

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Dec 23, 2022
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Any man with real ambition should fast. I know of nothing to make a man formidable quite like the voluntarily forgoing of food for a time.

Earlier this week I finished the longest fast I’ve ever undertaken. On the one hand, I am pretty happy to have achieved my objective (water only from Tuesday PM to Monday AM, 132 hou…

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