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    ascetic


    1. Casuistry, and an ascetic morality, made up, in most cases, the greater part of the moral philosophy of the schools


    2. The alterations which the universities of Europe thus introduced into the ancient course of philosophy were all meant for the education of ecclesiastics, and to render it a more proper introduction to the study of theology But the additional quantity of subtlety and sophistry, the casuistry and ascetic morality which those alterations introduced into it, certainly did not render it more for the education of gentlemen or men of the world, or more likely either to improve the understanding or to mend the heart


    3. means that a person is exploring the true meaning of life, the universe asceticism means ascetic people just walk in awakening a traveler on the road, they are not sleep, because they are still in the exploration and research, so they haven't awakening and consciousness


    4. Life in Tasmania wraps visitors in a mystic aura, an ascetic and contemplative magnetism


    5. That music contains, besides, elements of sacred rhythm and ascetic tonality


    6. “It is wrong to call me an ascetic


    7. down his body in ascetic endeavors because of the warmth of his love for God, and he transformed souls by the


    8. Ascetic effort without obedience results in vanity


    9. Chastity is connected and cultivated in an ascetic atmosphere and state of mind, which presupposes effort, and is followed by the consolation of the


    10. The Holy Spirit has given to the elder, after many years of ascetic

    11. For, as a contemporary ascetic tel s us, the saints would stil love Christ selflessly, even if there were no paradise, even if we were to suppose that al the places of paradise had been already claimed


    12. There are many narrative stories in the synaxaria about saints who were hosts to wild beasts in the cel s or caves of their ascetic endeavors (St


    13. The most ascetic St


    14. There was once an ascetic who was praying in the desert and a temptation came to disturb him


    15. Humbling himself as usual, the ascetic was tempted with the presence of a false light


    16. temptation disappeared and an inexpressible peace fil ed the heart of the ascetic


    17. Let us stand courageously, like the ascetic mentioned by


    18. Neilos the Ascetic, who had been bitten by a snake while praying


    19. Mark the Ascetic informs us that with these tears Christ has visited us and has opened our eyes


    20. Athos who used the prayer of the heart, as told to us by a fel ow ascetic who was

    21. The Engedi colony included not only Nazarites of lifelong and time-period consecration but numerous other ascetic herdsmen who congregated in this region with their herds and fraternized with the Nazarite brotherhood


    22. He was not an ascetic, and he came forever to destroy all such notions regarding the approach to God


    23. Many of the Nazarite brotherhood became believers in Jesus, but the majority of these ascetic and eccentric men refused to accept him as a teacher sent from heaven because he did not teach fasting and other forms of self-denial


    24. you are a hedonist or an ascetic


    25. At the age of thirteen he became interested in God, His love and the interconnectedness of all things, which instilled him the irresistible urge to shun all the niceties of life and take up the mantle of an ascetic


    26. The naked ascetic attracted a lot more attention to the already established religion of Jainism, and was reported to have as many as 400,000 followers during his lifetime 2,500 years ago


    27. He intended his monastic sect to be every bit as zealous, ascetic and righteous as any future dissenters; but, he conceded, “In my country we have a saying


    28. No ascetic renunciation here! Only energy; how to get more of it, how to connect


    29. Hitler was this religion's ascetic saint


    30. The IITian and the Gandhian; the tech-savvy mobilizer and the crowd-pulling ascetic; the urban activist and a rural folk hero—Kejriwal and Anna forged a unique partnership that, by August 2011, had the mighty Indian state bending before it

    31. Where, indeed, could the Apostle have turned for peace of heart, for satisfaction of conscience, for hope in a world to come, if he had gone away from the synagogue of Capernaum with the deserters, and left Christ 1854 years ago! Would he have found what he wanted among the formal Pharisees, or the sceptical Sadducees, or the worldly Herodians, or the ascetic Essenes, or the philosophical schools of Athens, Alexandria, or Rome? Would Gamaliel, or Caiaphas, or Stoics, or Epicureans, or Platonists, have quenched his spiritual thirst, or fed his soul? It is waste of time to ask such questions


    32. She was so effective in her arguments and would have nothing to do with Ravan,refusing to become his concubine She was kept captive in a beautiful garden called ashok vatika Guarded by enunchs ,living like a ascetic praying and fasting


    33. beings whom he regards as living, there is no one whom the ascetic can


    34. Paramhans is an honorific title used for an ascetic of the highest order, one who has learnt perfect control of his


    35. ition that he had been an ascetic during his last seven births


    36. yogi, an ascetic or saint, engaged in constant meditation


    37. - The ASCETIC is one who practises severe austerities and mortifica-


    38. But the ascetic, the man


    39. 20) claims that Nicolaus was an ascetic, and then current Nicolaitans were not his true followers because they perverted his teaching that it was necessary to abuse the flesh


    40. It was reported that some Muslim women said to the Lady Aisha (may God be pleased with her): “There is a man, ascetic and Sufi, putting wool on his body, walking barefooted and running in the roads

    41. But she said: “He is not an ascetic


    42. But as elites conspire to eliminate the trappings of Christmas in their quest for revolutionary liberation, they end up imposing a sociopolitical control more strident than anything concocted by the most repressed ascetic


    43. and ascetic life previously existed? Would he not have


    44. always be a community of ascetic Jews in the diamond business on Mars,” Tim


    45. First, the Hindu"s idea of the highest way of living is that of the holy ascetic and there are many kinds of hermits that lead a very frugal and solitary life


    46. I once read a book on such holy, ascetic yogis and swamis and was unable to feel the slightest empathy or understanding for their path to holiness


    47. A harsh, ascetic, holy face


    48. What I am pointing out is that; it is entirely feasible and practical to not only have a simpler more ascetic lifestyle using less tools: but that you can have more fun and be happier doing so by simply playing more than you work… by changing your values, perspective and priorities around 180 degrees


    49. So they made a virtue out of necessity; and practiced an ascetic lifestyle that came to be admired by the other Greek warrior cultures


    50. To actually practice an ascetic, non-accumulating lifestyle… to willingly give up the concepts of accumulation and ownership




























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    Synonyms for "ascetic"

    abstainer ascetic ascetical austere spartan monk penitent puritan rigorous severe modest plain unadorned reclusive

    "ascetic" definitions

    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline


    pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline


    practicing great self-denial