“One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology – whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab – is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, could kill it. It was commonly believed that people who eat in abundance become hardhearted.”

“One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology – whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab – is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, could kill it. It was commonly believed that people who eat in abundance become hardhearted.”

— Hamza Yusuf