We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“Also, asceticism is all right when it is the proper means of attaining some special end. It is when it produces eructations… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Krishna.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds "jiva" (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with "ajiva" (the lifeless, material aspect… — Mark X Copy Share Image
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
