Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.” — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
“an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow.” — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease. — William James Copy Share Image
Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the… — Hasan of Basra 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
Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception… — Tito Colliander 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
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept… — Peter Sloterdijk 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
“By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Looking out the window of a large women's monastery after Divine Liturgy, my friend saw a few nuns walking toward the woods… — Constantina R. Palmer Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Other centuries sought safety in the union of reason and religion, research and asceticism. In their Universitas Litterarum, theology ruled. Among us… — Hermann Hesse 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
“If asceticism is to he something different today than this pre-modern denial of autonomy and self-determination, it must he conceived of differently… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life… — Peter Sloterdijk 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
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the… — Vyasa 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
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
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