Narendra and other disciples used to spend many hours in practising meditation and religious austerities every day.
The story she tells is really about Quakers, and about one family's continuous struggle to reconcile religious values pacifism, austerity, sobriety with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune.
The story she tells is really about Quakers, and about one family's continuous struggle to reconcile religious values — pacifism, austerity, sobriety — with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune.
At this location, where monastic cloisters in the Medieval style have been re-created, more simple, architectural designs reflecting the austerity of religious orders by Cristobal Balenciaga, American designer Clare McCardell and Madame Gres can be seen.
Economic austerity, social, religious and generational conflict, immigration from the Islamic world — all those concerns and more have helped contribute to a bumper crop of movies for the fourth annual Disappearing Act European film festival in Manhattan that reflect, and reflect upon, current realities.
"The desert has a religious nature to it — the austerity, the intense heat, all the people free to contemplate their lives and roles in it," he said.
After years of experimenting with different forms of religious practice, he abandoned his austerities and all his concepts about his spiritual journey -- all the beliefs and doctrines that had led him to where he was.
Ḥasidism, also spelled Chasidism, (from Hebrew ḥasid, "pious one"), a 12th- and 13th-century Jewish religious movement in Germany that combined austerity with overtones of mysticism.
ARGUMENTS about austerity have taken on an almost religious fervour.
Still, the economic downturn has shown the importance of religious charities, at a time when the government has imposed severe austerity cuts to help resolve its debt problems.
