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Notes on Stillness and Asceticism
All ascetics either strive for or experience stillness. Stillness is both a term to explain what to strive for, but it is also a physical state and space, which the mastered ascetic enters, and which… more →
Cobwebs From An Empty Skull
There is no happiness in following the ways of the world.
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vishalchoudhary23 wrote 2 months ago: There is no happiness in following the ways of the world. Questioner: There are some people who want … more →
comsumes the desert
Shawn Roske wrote 4 months ago: May i be finished with the desert, where i have been sitting in ascetics, the consuming sands have e … more →
Cleanliness Next to Godliness?
Matt Erickson wrote 4 months ago: When I was very young, so I have been told, I was one of those children who hated having stuff stuck … more →
Psychotic Reasoning, The Will To Believe, And Religious Interpretations Of The Mentally Ill
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Daniel Fincke wrote 4 months ago: Yesterday morning, The Friendly Atheist’s Hemant Mehta analyzed stories of mothers who murdere … more →
Blessings from Udaipur
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NEWS: Monk Advocates for Bhikkhuni Sangha
Natalie C Winslow wrote 7 months ago: A British Buddhist monk teaching in Australia, but ordained in the forest monk tradition in Thailand … more →
Notes on Stillness and Asceticism
alexmalina wrote 8 months ago: All ascetics either strive for or experience stillness. Stillness is both a term to explain what to … more →
Simeon Stylites on the Pillar, Image
alexmalina wrote 9 months ago: I am not sure who created this image, but it is interesting and it is always good to see such figure … more →
Christian Ascetics: Domnina
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alexmalina wrote 10 months ago: As most ascetics and solitaries of her time, there was a certain need to emulate the ideal life, lif … more →
Christian Ascetics: Grazers
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alexmalina wrote 10 months ago: Among the fascinating men and women of early Christianity that I have come across in my studies of t … more →
Urban Asceticism
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alexmalina wrote 10 months ago: The subject of urban asceticism is of particular interest for the modern man. Though many people wi … more →
Giovanni Maria Augustini - American hermit, ascetic, mystic
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alexmalina wrote 10 months ago: Over the coarse of reading about different hermits in the United States, I cam across a fasinating f … more →
Urban Asceticism and Spiritual Combat in the 21st Century - Part 1
alexmalina wrote 10 months ago: What is spiritual combat? What is urban asceticism? I think more and more people – while may … more →
Photo of Christian Ascetic
alexmalina wrote 10 months ago: I found this image of an Ethopian Christian ascetic hermit on this site: http://pro.corbis.com/searc … more →
Christian Ascetics: Matt Talbot
alexmalina wrote 10 months ago: Very rarely do we hear about modern ascetics. In fact asceticism has almost entirely disappeared as … more →
The Most Important Meal of The Day
shipinthenight wrote 1 year ago: Obesity Linked to Skipping Breakfast An In Depth Report The jury is back and the verdict is in. Fail … more →
I Vant To Be Alone . . .
poietes wrote 1 year ago: Hermits, Eremites, Anchorites, or Just Plain Recluses? Aran Islands Hermit's Cave, Ireland I … more →
Human ability to control the natural world
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: I was always interested in the ancient belief in magic from the perspective of history. It was alway … more →
St. Simeon, fool-for-Christ
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Alex wrote 1 year ago: I think Simeon’s on the left. I have a serious weakness for the ascetic saints, probably becau … more →
