asceticism

asceticism practiced in a monastery.

He next practised asceticism, which was very common among Samanas.

Leo Tolstoy, who in his fifties gave up much of his wealth and devoted himself to a life of pacificism and asceticism, had as one of his disciples a certain wealthy aristocrat named Chertkov.

The monk embraced asceticism as a way of life.

Asceticism often involves fasting and self-denial.

Some people practice asceticism to focus on spiritual growth.

Asceticism can be seen as a form of extreme discipline.

Asceticism is often associated with simplicity and minimalism.

In some cultures, asceticism is highly respected.

Asceticism can be a path to spiritual enlightenment.

Many philosophers have explored the concept of asceticism in their writings.

Then we strive to live according to our own asceticism.

I am no customer for either Puritanism or asceticism.

The mix of asceticism and mysticism suggests an author who thinks the real action is happening in another realm.

Prayer is not included, and neither is asceticism.

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays on his house and goods.

Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.

When we enter into genuine prayer, we are far away from asceticism and all other isms, for we are one with the living Lord.

As a youth, I had only to do with asceticism, with thinking and meditation, was searching for Brahman, worshipped the eternal in the Atman.

Well educated, well endowed, and not deficient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.