Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself..
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" t….
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you….
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supp….
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….
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence..