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1746-1755

  • (In the case of material food) if you eat (too) little, you will remain hungry like the crow; and if you eat your fill, you will suffer from eructation.
  • If you eat (too) little, (the result will be) ill-temper and anaemia and consumption; if you eat your fill, your body will incur (the penalty of) indigestion.
  • Through (partaking of) the Food of God and the easily digested (delicious) nutriment, ride like a ship on such a (spiritual) ocean.
  • Be patient and persistent in fasting: (be) always expecting the Food of God;
  • For God, who acts with goodness and is long-suffering, bestows (His) gifts (on them that are) in expectation. 1750
  • The full-fed man does not wait expectantly for bread, (wondering) whether his allowance will come soon or late;
  • (But) the foodless man is always asking, “Where (is it)?” and expecting it hungrily and seeking and searching (for it).
  • Unless you are expectant, that bounty of manifold felicity will not come to you.
  • (Practise) expectation, O father, expectation, like a (true) man, for the sake of the dishes from above.
  • Every hungry man obtained some food at last: the sun of (spiritual) fortune shone upon him. 1755