How To Use Ascesis In A Sentence
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He had focused on an extremely refined and excellent ideal and achieved success in that ascesis too.
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At dawn he leaves to perform ascesis, fasting the whole day.
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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.
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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
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Besides the ascesis through spiritual fatherhood, the monastics fulfill their daily spiritual exercise through the more common practices of prayer, fasting, and vigil.
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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
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Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
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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'
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Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
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As she was insatiable, Maudgalya got fed up and reverted to ascesis.
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Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
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We might think of a notion of ascesis not only as articulated by Walter Pater but also as expressed in the work of scholars like Leo Bersani.
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It also does this by its vulgarity and childishness that corrodes the notion of the seriousness of life and the need for ascesis self-discipline, all of which are fundamental elements that maintain family cohesion and stability.
Modesty of Dress and Love of God
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To admit that we do not know is a costly ascesis, not least because knowledge would give us power for good as well as evil, the power to comfort the grieving, to reassure the afflicted, and to shore up hope and fortify the weak against apathy.
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This purification is understood as entailing the freeing of the soul from undue bodily influence, achieved by seasoning the body with virtue and ascesis.
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The early ascetics take their name from their training in ascesis, the Greek word for "athletic discipline," but now it came to be chiefly a term applied to early Christian spiritual renunciation and obedience.
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: The Compelling Spiritual Discipline Of Asceticism
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Besides the ascesis through spiritual fatherhood, the monastics fulfill their daily spiritual exercise through the more common practices of prayer, fasting, and vigil.
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Both, in their way, weave together philosophy and theology, liturgy, politics and personal ascesis.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
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The "radical spiritual ascesis" that Rome must undertake is what?
Archive 2007-11-01
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The life of spiritual discipline designed for the purpose—prayer, liturgy, sacrifice, devotions—is called ascesis, and the monastic tradition, especially of Eastern Christianity, exists to enable some people to devote their lives to it, both for their own salvation and as a sign to the rest of us of what we must make out of our own lives in the world.
Life is war
