Inner Fasting, Inner Feasting

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Zechariah's question as a distant mirror turned inward. Fasting, in truth, is not a punishment of the body but a clearing of attention, a turning of desire toward the I AM that you really are. When you fast merely to prove something to others, you are still living as a self who eats for self; the practice remains outside and inert. But when you answer the question with inner certainty, you replace the old motive with a single allegiance: I AM awareness. The act of fasting becomes a shift of consciousness, a deliberate revision of your state so that hunger points not to cravings but to the realization that you are sustained by the eternal you. Eating and drinking then cease to be acts of self-satisfaction and become moments of gratitude for the abundance of truth within you. If you consistently assume you are one with the I AM, your outer rituals dissolve into expressions of inner reality. Zechariah’s word becomes a doorway to live worship, here and now, by the power of imagination rightly directed.