Quotes Tagged With :asceticism

Mental discipline, prayer and remoteness from the world and its disturbing visions reduce temptation....

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.

As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds "jiva" (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with....

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

Does biblical psychology, then, merely ask us to value good things a little less? Does the Bible seek....

Giving up alcohol is an asceticism for the modern do-gooder, drinking being, like sex, a pleasure that....

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

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

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