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
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is… — Tito Colliander 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
Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have.… — Tito Colliander 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
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
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
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What… — Mark X 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
Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure… — Reiner Stach 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
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
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
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
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
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
“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
“Asceticism is an antidote to the poison of self-centeredness common in our culture, which teaches us that satisfying our own desires is… — Rob Dreher 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
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
“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
“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
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander 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
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
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