Sentence examples similar to self renunciation from inspiring English sources

They proceed from "external" to "internal" worship and adore the Goddess mentally, offering their hearts as her throne and their self-renunciation as "flowers".

Under a variety of names over the years, including Human Individual Metamorphosis, Bo and Peep, and Total Overcomers Anonymous, the group advocated extreme self-renunciation to the point of castration.

Returning to America, Mitchell is filled with self-loathing: "His dreaminess, his swooning — his intelligent stupidity — were responsible for everything that was idiotic about him, for his fantasy of marrying Madeleine and for the self-renunciations that hedged against the fantasy's not coming true".

To produce this unnatural self-renunciation, "the whole power of education is required" (SL 4.5).

The term κένωσις refers to a gesture of self-emptying or self-renunciation in order to achieve an ethos of servitude.

Gandhi's practice of self-renunciation (brahmacharya) including his vow of poverty and his fasts were closely tied to his commitment to ahimsa.

Acquiescence into one's own mortality constitutes the opposite pole to self-affirmation, "self-renunciation" [Selbsthingabe] (ST, p. 14), which is thus distinct from and even antithetical to the ethical impetus in philosophy and science.

Gandhi based his commitment to nonviolence on a spiritual foundation that emphasized self-renunciation (brahmacharya) and the positive action of the force of love or force of truth that he called satyagraha.

Despite the fact that it is no longer legally mandatory for wives to give up their maiden names, many women adhere to this custom and perpetuate this traditional gesture of self-renunciation.

It requires "a constant preference of public to private interest" (SL 4.5); it "limits ambition to the sole desire, to the sole happiness, of doing greater services to our country than the rest of our fellow citizens" (SL 5.3); and it "is a self-renunciation, which is ever arduous and painful" (SL 4.5).

The essential philosophy of the group was based upon a belief in self-renunciation, hard work, tolerance, and peace.