Here we are, and the month is starting.
Another month like no other month. One enters it with one’s conscience, heart and body. Something is going to change, something has changed…something must change. The key of this month is our mind… At the threshold of this month our intelligence questions our intention, our intentions.
The meaning of fasting is universal… “O you who have attained to faith, fasting has been prescribed to you as it was prescribed for those before you…” and it interpellates every heart deeply, individually, necessarily. Why to deprive oneself when, far from the sight of the others, one would be able to drink, eat or forget?...Why?
The fast calls upon our heart to live and fast for the One, for our self, with the intention to find again the inner reality. Far from the people. The month of Ramadan is transparency and sincerity as to one’s self. Step by step, day after day, to be with God, with one’s inner self, in the light of the Book and the Messenger…to try to get back to the right dimension, to educate one’s self. One’s body, tongue, heart. The fast is the path toward one’s inner self.
One must learn to give as well. With all one’s heart. The month of Ramadan is gift and generosity as to the other. To learn to give from one’s time, smiles, qualities and money. To keep silent about hatred, aggressiveness and anger and to say, to repeat and to whisper the words of love, tenderness and affection.
To take for one’s self as well as to give for the other…with the same intention to love the Most Close, to enter into His Peace and to reconcile one's self with the meaning of the true life. May your fast be beautiful, profound and untroubled commensurate with your most beautiful intentions.
With affection and love