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Divine Food

able to extract the spiritual content and, to this end,
you have to develop your mind to effectively do so.
Only then will you be able to garner spiritual or divine
food. If material food maintains your physical health,
then the divine content of material things develops
your personality along spiritual lines. While physical
food gives you physical health, spiritual food maintains
the health of the non-physical part of your personality.
For example, let us consider water, which is a
combination of two gases—hydrogen and oxygen.
Although it is made up of two material elements,
when it enters the human body, it becomes assimilated
in it, thus giving it vital assistance in maintaining its
functions. When you discover this affinity between
water and your body, you provide yourself with
spiritual food for thought, leading to the realization
and appreciation of God’s wisdom, in that He created
water – a combination of chemicals – in such a way that
it is completely compatible with our bodies. Discoveries
of this kind, made by observing the various material
objects and events around you and then extracting the
spiritual content from them, will give you unlimited
solace and contentment.

Extracting the spiritual content from material things
will give you the spiritual food to enable you to develop
yourself as a spiritual person. If your earnest desire is to
live your life as a spiritual person, you must learn the art
of such extraction

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