O God! as I am fasting from the appetites of the body and
not occupied with eating and drinking, even so purify and make holy my heart
and my life from aught else save Thy Love, and protect and preserve my soul
from self-passions and animal traits. Thus may the spirit associate with the
Fragrances of Holiness and fast from everything else save Thy mention.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From
a table talk in Akka in 1907, recorded by Corine True, ‘Notes Taken at Acca’, booklet
published by Baha’i Publishing Society, Chicago 1907)
