Quotes Tagged With :ascetic

Stupidity and MadnessThe Tao is clear, yet this clarity requires you to sweep away all your clutter.....

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.....

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an....

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags....

Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all....

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered....

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative....

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking....

1. Accept everything just the way it is.2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.3. Do not, under any....