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    asceticism


    1. On 14th day after his wife’s death Buwa took the vows of asceticism


    2. 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


    3. “After I had realized that both materialism and asceticism are self-indulgent, I went to contemplate all that I had learned, to logically sort out what could and could not be known with certainty


    4. extravagances of asceticism on the one hand and the carelessness of mere


    5. facility such topics as the revision of the Gospel and the superfluousness of asceticism


    6. Only those who have given blood through asceticism can express something about the mystery of


    7. The Holy Spirit il umines and inspires the way of asceticism


    8. their asceticism and obedience, the monastics become bearers of God ( theotokoi)


    9. conviction of asceticism and martyrdom


    10. him that she would be protectress, nurse and doctor of whoever endures the pain of asceticism in this life, and

    11. If love is not a threat to worldliness, then it is not love of other and All as self, but a solitary asceticism and private devotion


    12. practice that asceticism to which we call attention as


    13. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays on


    14. asceticism of a severe order, in renunciation of the pomp


    15. A man may lead an ordinary life but is expected that nearing his end he will turn to asceticism


    16. I found in Hinduism a peculiarly childish faith that sustained their proclivity for asceticism


    17. Avarice gone mad; worshipping frugality and asceticism


    18. But was he really happy with his asceticism and his earthenware jar of a home? A Cynic philosopher


    19. Vice may be excess in any direction, but asceticism has generally been accepted as a nobler vice than voluptuousness


    20. Falsehood must glitter; chastity must be sublimed into asceticism; music almost divine must enchant the ear; 'a fair show in the lesh’ must be made, even if the interior be 'dead men's bones and all uncleanness

    21. A true theology will teach men to include the whole of life in their religion, as a spectre-ridden asceticism never can


    22. “Above asceticism there is a state when a man equally does not con-


    23. Mr Belcher was not suffering from any particular malady, but was merely `run down', and rumour had it that this condition had been brought about by the rigorous asceticism of his life and his intense devotion to the arduous labours of his holy calling


    24. There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes


    25. One wants here the same thing as in a monastery, the same heroic asceticism


    26. When I thought of my " idea " and it was forged in white heat, I began asking myself— am I capable of asceticism ? With this object, for the whole of the first month I took bread and water, not more than two and a half pounds of black bread a day


    27. Of course it’s all an ideal, and in the ‘poor knight’ that spirit reached the utmost limit of asceticism


    28. Jesus did not teach salvation by faith in asceticism or voluntary torture, but he taught us a way of life which, while saving us from the emptiness of the personal life, would give us less of suffering and more of joy


    29. To the majority of learned men, looking at the living, moral teaching of Christ from the lower standpoint of the state conception of life, this doctrine appears as nothing but a very indefinite and incongruous combination of Indian asceticism, Stoic and Neoplatonic philosophy, and insubstantial anti-social visions, which have no serious significance for our times


    30. The asceticism of manhood is apparent from the studied air with which everybody is on his guard against his neighbor

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    Synonyms for "asceticism"

    ascesis asceticism austerity nonindulgence

    "asceticism" definitions

    the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state


    the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)


    rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint