Sentence examples for bodily desires from inspiring English sources

Plato believed that it is necessary to suppress bodily desires so that the soul can be free to search for knowledge.

How, for instance, can the pious affirm the sanctity of the human body while urging people to discipline their bodily desires?

And, though she was raised in a secular household, she attended an all girls' Catholic high school that, though supposedly committed to inspiring its young women, only filled her with Christian shame for her bodily desires.

It is not that sex is denied or repressed, exactly, but rather that bodily desires are ultimately less consequential than more exalted longings, chief among them the yearning to figure out the world and one's place within it.

In the 2nd century ad, Clement of Alexandria, a Christian philosophical theologian, pointed toward a psychological interpretation of demonic forces by stating that man was often captivated by the inner appetitive drives of his passions and bodily desires.

Many religions also include the notion of a fuller life beyond the grave, a land in which there will be an absence of suffering and a complete satisfaction of bodily desires.

Late antique and Roman writers, like Plutarch, lauded men for their ability to resist sexual temptation and control bodily desire through force of will and intellect.

Adonis in Venus and Adonis, Angelo in Measure for Measure and Prospero in The Tempest are singled out as criminals who offend against nature on the grounds that they deny bodily desire and seek to banish natural instincts.

The most typical consists of four stages: (1) purgation (of bodily desire); (2) purification (of the will); (3) illumination (of the mind); and (4) unification (of one's being or will with the divine).

The Pythagoreans were particularly suspicious of bodily desire and analyzed the ways in which it could lead people astray (Fr. 37).

A sweet piece of fruit cannot satisfy a desire for perfection in the natural world any more than a distinct perception of harmony in the natural world can satisfy a bodily desire for nourishment.