Ascetic meaning

Adjective: ascetic

Pronunciation: (u’se-tik)

Ascetic meaning:

1. Practicing great self-denial. Synonyms: ascetical, austere, Spartan, abstemious
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline. Synonyms: ascetical

Noun: ascetic

Meaning: Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline. Synonyms: abstainer

Quotations: Bertrand Russell – Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Charles Gounod – This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

William James – Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Guru Nanak – Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff, of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others.

C.S. Lewis – Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years’ study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

Chanakya – The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

Sample sentences:

1. Ascetic practices are always appreciated.
2. Be systematically ascetic, do something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it.
3. The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
4. In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
5. I am the sweet fragrance in the earth. I am the heat in the fire, the life in all living beings, and the austerity in the ascetics.
6. He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.
7. Let a fool month after month eat his food like an ascetic with the tip of a blade of grass, yet he is not worth the sixteenth particle of those who have well weighed the law.
8. It’s about beauty and ascetics, not about opulence.
9. Some offer their wealth, their austerity, and their practice of yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics with strict vows offer their study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.
10. A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.