How To Use ascesis In A Sentence
- He had focused on an extremely refined and excellent ideal and achieved success in that ascesis too.
- At dawn he leaves to perform ascesis, fasting the whole day.
- Those scriptures that contain prescriptions for worshipping gods, sacrifices, donations, ascesis and other rituals, have been prepared by wise men only to keep people subjugated.
- The courses also teach the importance of ascesis, of renouncing some things in order to grow and develop in the search for a higher good. ACN News - Holiness and discipline in Peru
- Besides the ascesis through spiritual fatherhood, the monastics fulfill their daily spiritual exercise through the more common practices of prayer, fasting, and vigil.
- The ways of the image and the emblem are opposed; the final line is not a rhetorical statement of reconciliation but an anguished question; it is our perilous fate not to know if the glimpses of unity which we perceive at times can be made more permanent by natural ways or by the ascesis of renunciation, by images or emblem" (202). History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
- Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
- The elusive but seductive goal of this intellectual ascesis is to turn us into anthropologists of our own culture and historians of our own present. 'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'
- Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
- As she was insatiable, Maudgalya got fed up and reverted to ascesis.
