How to Understand: The Reasons for Fasting! youtu.be/Z_Owcti3yU8?... via @YouTube #Fasting #ReligiousFasting #HistoryOfReligion #SpiritualDiscipline #Penance #Asceticism #ComparativeReligion #Ramadan #Lent #YomKippur

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Why do we think hard work is virtuous? Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic gives a sharp answer The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from both, but is stranger than either.

tinyurl.com/3ea8myce #weber #sociology #culture #freedom #choice #productivity #efficiency #selfreliance #CarCulture #WorkAsACalling #Efficiency #Rationalisation #MaterialSuccess #Individualism #Autonomy #Modernity #Mechanisation #Standardisation #Asceticism #Reinvestment #TimeDiscipline

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Hey #makeup, #skincare, and #candy companies, how about you make some #LentCalendars instead of #AdventCalendars? Since #lent is more about #asceticism, the calendars could have some restraint to them, making them less indulgent than #advent. Like the products might be #vegan, #sugarfree […]

Asceticism - Wikipedia

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#Asceticism #Philosophy #MonasticLife #SimpleLiving #Mindfulness

Candlelit chapels. Rugged trails. Soul-searching. 🌌
Find it in Unorthodox Pilgrimage.
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#MountAthos #Athos #Monastery #Monasticism #Asceticism #Prayer #Chant #Incense #Iconography #Hesychasm #Silence #Contemplation #Mysticism #ChristianMysticism #GreekOrthodox #Orthodoxy

✨📿 Journey where time stands still... Unorthodox Pilgrimage leads you into the hidden world of Mount Athos. Monks, mountains, and mysticism await. 🌄
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Candlelit chapels. Rugged trails. Soul-searching. 🌌
Find it in Unorthodox Pilgrimage.
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Unorthodox Pilgrimage — raw encounters on Mount Athos. 🔥📍 Get yours: amazon.com/author/mystic1

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✨📿 Journey where time stands still... Unorthodox Pilgrimage leads you into the hidden world of Mount Athos.
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#MountAthos #Athos #Pilgrimage #SpiritualJourney #MysticTravel #PilgrimagePath #Monastic #Monastery #Monasticism #Asceticism #Chant #GreekOrthodox #Orthodoxy

I’m honored to be featured in Chapter 8 - Exercise: A Pilgrim's Progress w/ other scholars & authors in Abi Millar’s book The Spirituality Gap.

She interviews me about #ultrarunning #spirituality #christian #asceticism

We recently swapped #books
You'll find both on Amazon.

#books #authors

The Middle Way: The balance between extremes in Buddhist thought The concept of the Middle Way (Majjhimā Paṭipadā) represents a central idea in Buddhist philosophy. It refers to a path of moderation that deliberately avoids the extremes of self-indulgence and self-...

The #MiddleWay ( #MajjhimāPaṭipadā) in #Buddhism designates a path of moderation between #indulgence and #asceticism. It grounds the #EightfoldPath and, in #Madhyamaka #philosophy, is refined into a systematic rejection of extremes in metaphysical reasoning. Here‘s a brief introduction:

Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism,
#anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.

#Formatismus
#Art #Music #Asceticism #Symbolism

Tor ( ) - 01 Alles in Allem
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Act with mindfulness ~ Longchenpa
https://justdharma.org/act-with-mindfulness-longchenpa/

#Longchenpa #asceticism #mindfulness #wordly

Today, July 23, is the Feast Day of St. John Cassian in Western Christian Churches. The Eastern Orthodox venerate him on February 28/29 whether or not its a leap year.

He was both a monk and theologian. He was born in Scythia in AD 360
#tec #anglican #wat #asceticism #catholic

Colossians 2:22b-23, Embrace Christ's Supremacy : Peter Macinta : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive By the grace of God, for this podcast I point out how part of the spirit of the Lycus Valley Heresy affects us today as well as present the literal meaning...

Embrace Christ's Supremacy
Colossians 2:22b-23
#podcast : archive.org/details/co-2...
#LycusValleyHeresy #ColossianHeresy #MysteryReligions #Gnosticism #religion #asceticism #superstitions #BenjaminFranklin #virtues #MacintaMinistries

#sick
#illness
#asceticism
#rest
#mindfulness
#meditation
@skylight.social

Detachment as ascetic warfare—awakening beyond the senses, beyond the mind, beyond being itself. #Tradition #Metaphysics #Asceticism #Magic

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #stromata #miscellanies #clement #alexandria #egypt #ante-nicene #christian #christianity #3rdCentury #earlychristianity #gnostic #ascetic #asceticism #body #energy #religion #belief #badhypothesis

February 1 is National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, poem-Mike Wilson, photo-Nas Mato
#mikewilsonauthor #haiku #icecream #asceticism #humor

Perhaps not only in the US

#kindness #empathy #asceticism

NEW ARTICLE in #CSSAAME on #monastic #asceticism as #subaltern resistance to #imperial power. Download here:

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“Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”:

Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism, #anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.