In short we cannot claim that these days of our retirement were passed in ascetic meditation.
A sort of ascetic order constantly dissatisfied with satisfaction, never able to make the real world conform to our sense of perfect exposure harmony and order.
In other words, what the author says is, you don't need all these ascetic practices because if you are in Christ you already possess everything that the heavens have to offer.
This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices.
In contemporary Shanghai, architectural styles all coincide - the crassest postmodern revivalism and the purest ascetic modernism.
Gordon Brown is himself part deep-thinking ascetic, part inadvertent blunderer, and he risks making the same mistake, in more than one way.
I shall never be an ascetic.
They developed quite a following, they were very ascetic, very strict, so they forbade marriage, and these sorts of things.
To balance the car and save money, they put the battery under the driver’s seat—an example of the smart but ascetic engineering that can produce an impressive car for $2,000.
India has two aspects--in one she is a householder, in the other a wandering ascetic.
They're anti-ascetic.
The Quanzhen School of Taoism, established at the Jin and Yuan dynasties, called on Taoists to live an ascetic life and to minimize the needs for material life.
Yet even those who carry on the most ascetic, pared-down existence depend on petroleum in some form or other.
He christened this attitude 'amor fati'. (Ironically, it was Nietzsche who led an ascetic life while neither Schopenhauer nor Wagner seemed to have practiced the 'renunciation of the Will'!)
You stand still day and night, like an ascetic at his penances.
Paul and the good guys are all ascetic.
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