When I went away to college, weighing 120 pounds and gripped by an ice-cold fear of gaining the freshman 15, I ate Spartan meals and kept no snacks in my dorm room.
He maintained a spartan lifestyle, eating plain meals alone at an inexpensive restaurant.
Its monastic practices included adult baptism by treble immersion, the wearing of Catholic-style monastic garb, Sabbatarianism, long days of work and prayer, a Spartan diet of one vegetarian meal a day and accommodation in tiny, sparsely furnished cells.
It is not exactly sure why he chose his last meal to be so spartan.
In an interview at corporation headquarters in Sydney, he said the voyage from Britain, aboard a luxury liner with five-course meals, had been followed by a spartan life working on farms and as domestic helpers in an isolated settlement in New South Wales.
No human contact save for occasional visits from my teachers, Jack Kornfield and Pema Chodron, and whoever slipped those awesome vegetarian meals under the door of my spartan dorm room.
Monks welcome pilgrims to the spartan quarters where they are provided with a simple meal and left to fend for themselves.
There were possibly several reasons for the decline of numbers, one of which was that every Spartan who wasn't able to pay his share in the syssitia (common meal for men in Doric societies) lost his full citizenship, although this didn't exclude his offspring from partaking in the agoge (traditional Spartan education and training regime).
Those visitors pay about $100 a night to stay in a spotless, spartan room, worship in as many as five services each day, dine on healthy meals and maintain long periods of ruminative quiet, sometimes broken by confessional meetings with a monk.
