Ascetic

Patrushev is the hard-drinking, tough-talking, outspoken Siloviki; whereas Putin is ascetic, does not drink, strategic and measured in his thoughts and comments.

He has that air of ascetic distance which is true.

Some people admire the S.F. Ascetic even when he is hypocritical — for example, being individualistic rather than collectivist.

While receiving treatment as an inpatient at the hospital it was decided that she have an ascetic drain procedure to divert fluid from her abdomen.

We didn’t lead ascetic lives, but prudish attitudes had invaded our psyches.

For this reason, when people see an ascetic they become amazed by him and they would kiss his hand out of respect because they consider him to be a person who is strong enough to abandon that over which they were weak, and that is disobeying his desire.

Many ascetic Bauls renounce the modern world and travel on foot from town to town singing and begging alms, staying at ashrams, but have no fixed address.

After this he kept silence, retiring to the island of Saint-Cosme near Tours to live in ascetic solitude.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 22.14.1 Julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful Emperor who placed himself well above them.

Ascetic and Householder Shiva surrounded by various events in his life.

Ascetic practices, shrine rituals and ceremonies and Japanese festivals are the most public ways that Shinto devotees celebrate and offer adoration for the kami.

Ascetic practices within the Sufi philosophy were also associated with Buddhism.

Bertrand Russel (1947) noted citation :The Orphics were an ascetic sect; wine, to them, was only a symbol, as, later, in the Christian sacrament.

Certain sources also see a conversion of Boccaccio by Petrarch from the open humanist of the Decameron to a more ascetic style, closer to the dominant fourteenth century ethos.

Christianity hatnote seeAlso Historical background In early and ascetic Christianity, sex (procreation of children) was not emphasized, while celibacy and virginity were highly praised.

Colossians denounces ascetic practices or avoiding certain foods because Christ's death put an end to such distinctions.

Epicurus emphasized friendship as an important ingredient of happiness, and the school seems to have been a moderately ascetic community which rejected the political limelight of Athenian philosophy.

For him "In opposition to the ascetic ideal advocated by the dominant school of thought, hedonism suggests identifying the highest good with your own pleasure and that of others; the one must never be indulged at the expense of sacrificing the other.

For the ascetic yogin form as reflecting Epic period influences, see: Chakravarti, p. 32. Shiva is also depicted as a corpse below Goddess Kali, it represents that Shiva is a corpse without Shakti.

From an accomplished teacher and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic.