Cayce
"What we think and what we eat - combined together - MAKE what we ARE; physically and mentally." [Cayce 288-38]
"Through diet and exercise the greater portion of all disturbances may be equalized and overcome, if the right mental attitude is kept." [Cayce 288-38]
"Do not eat like a canary and expect to do MANUAL labor. Do not eat like a rail splitter and expect to do the work of a mind reader or a university professor." [Cayce 341-31]
"There should be at least one meal a day of only raw fresh vegetables, whether in the middle of the day or whether in the evening; preferably in the noonday time would this meal be taken." [Cayce 1276-1]
Rudolf Steiner
"A man wouldn’t be able to generate productive thoughts if he ate too much and too often, because his forces would be used in digestion, and there wouldn’t be any left for thinking. Schiller, Shakespeare and many other writers lived on very little food. The mind is never so clear as after long fasting. The greatest saints lived on fruit, bread and water, and no miracles were ever done on a full stomach.
When a man works on himself he harmonizes his temperaments, but until then a melancholic pupil should eat fruit, so that its sun forces permeate the solidifying and rigidifying element in melancholics. Phlegmatics shouldn’t eat black roots because they would only increase his inner love of ease. Whereas a sanguine would benefit by eating root vegetables. One could almost say: A sanguine must be fettered to his physical body by food, otherwise he might fly away. The ego is predominant in cholerics, so they should avoid hot spices and stimulating food." [Rudolf Steiner – GA 266 – ESOTERIC LESSONS 1: Number 56 – Unknown place and date]
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