Sentence examples for through mortification from inspiring English sources
Purification may also be attained through mortification and penance, practices that were especially common in medieval Christianity and in Judaism.
Damian interested me immensely, as he always talks about Saints and tries to be one by giving money to the poor and through mortification.
The trend toward jargon and a 50 percent chance of an a.c.r.o.n.y.m. joke in every chapter gives rise to a welcome British version of E.S.L. — Ennui as a Second Language, or Emulating Sam Lipsyte, a style that entertains through mortification, and mortifies through... you get it.
The initiate guided by a guru may practice Yoga (a "methodic exertion" of body and mind) in order to attain, through mortification, concentration, and meditation, a higher state of consciousness and thereby find supreme knowledge, achieve spiritual autonomy, and realize oneness with the Highest (or however the ultimate goal is conceived).
His images, with their reduction of the body to smears and stains, and emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in penitential religion, filtered through Duchamp, Sade and extreme sports.
His images, with their emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in heroic epics and penitential religion, filtered through Sade and extreme sports.
Dr. Yeager's intervention suggests that if teenagers can hold onto a long view, they can soldier through immediate mortifications at the cafeteria lunch table.
Mainly they want to know how Pruitt perseveres, soldiering through the mortifications and shrugging off the investigations, with skin as thick as it is luxuriantly lubricated.
As she stumbled her way through the mortifications of adolescence, she was constantly reminded, in large and small ways, that she was black, and she was made to hurt for that.
Kaundinya and his colleagues attended to Siddhartha in the hope that he would become enlightened through self-mortification.
Was I trying to attain perfection through contemplation and mortification, as did the 16th-century mystic St. Teresa of Avila?
