Sentence examples for through asceticism from inspiring English sources

Reflecting the Byzantine ascetic tradition, Anthony expressed the basic tension, never fully resolved, between the contemplative's search for God through asceticism and the social responsibilities of the hermit.

Along with such mystical minimalists as Arvo Part, he stands aside from Europe's last 400 years, as if seeking purity through asceticism.

He resigned his benefices and, with St. Cajetan of Thiene (Gaetano da Thiene), founded the order of the Theatines (Congregation of Clerics Regular) in 1524 to promote clerical reform through asceticism and apostolic work.

The spare décor is in keeping with the pursuit of enlightenment through asceticism: the colors are neutral, the volume is hushed, and the joinery of the wooden tables is flush, as though nails would be a distraction.

The most practical way to combat global warming is not through asceticism but through technology — the way we averted the famines and energy shortages forecast on past Earth Days.

So even though an agent may for example seek happiness through asceticism or may rationally prefer to sacrifice all his or her worldly goods to a political cause, economists have supposed that such preferences are rare and unimportant to economics.

Trying to truly satisfy desire is the height of irrationality, but for Schopenhauer there is nothing else we can will we can at best try to escape from the clutches of will altogether, whether through art, asceticism, or compassion.

Protestantism emphasized from its very beginning values that support democracy: independence (no mediation of a priest in confession; the Bible in vernacular language); high work ethics (serve God through work); asceticism (images of saints and decorations removed from churches) and honesty (celibacy abolished).

Agrippa, however, never perceived the disharmony between his essentially Neoplatonic sources, with their ideal of achieving enlightenment and holiness by rejection of the material world and improvement of the soul through meditation and asceticism, and the "evangelical" strain in his thought that emphasized simple faith and the authority of the Bible.

Rather than the blood-soaked orgies that may come to mind when one thinks of Satanism, my first steps along the diabolical path came through incessant scholastic asceticism.

That is, esoteric wisdom can either be attained through practical wisdom, which includes inner purification and asceticism, or through a type of philosophy which includes, but is not limited to discursive reasoning.