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 SkullNatalie C Winslow wrote 2 months ago: A British Buddhist monk teaching in Australia, but ordained in the forest monk tradition in Thailand … more →
alexmalina wrote 3 months ago: All ascetics either strive for or experience stillness. Stillness is both a term to explain what to … more →
alexmalina wrote 4 months ago: I am not sure who created this image, but it is interesting and it is always good to see such figur … more →
alexmalina wrote 4 months ago: As most ascetics and solitaries of her time, there was a certain need to emulate the ideal life, lif … more →
alexmalina wrote 4 months ago: Among the fascinating men and women of early Christianity that I have come across in my studies of t … more →
alexmalina wrote 5 months ago: The subject of urban asceticism is of particular interest for the modern man. Though many people wi … more →
alexmalina wrote 5 months ago: Over the coarse of reading about different hermits in the United States, I cam across a fasinating … more →
alexmalina wrote 5 months ago: What is spiritual combat? What is urban asceticism? I think more and more people – while ma … more →
alexmalina wrote 5 months ago: I found this image of an Ethopian Christian ascetic hermit on this site: http://pro.corbis.com/sear … more →
alexmalina wrote 5 months ago: Very rarely do we hear about modern ascetics. In fact asceticism has almost entirely disappeared a … more →
shipinthenight wrote 7 months ago: Obesity Linked to Skipping Breakfast An In Depth Report The jury is back and the verdict is in. F … more →
poietes wrote 7 months ago: Hermits, Eremites, Anchorites, or Just Plain Recluses? Aran Islands Hermit's Cave, Ireland I … more →
movierapture wrote 8 months ago: Having long been a student of India’s tantric traditions, I was overjoyed to discover that at … more →
egabriel wrote 9 months ago: I was always interested in the ancient belief in magic from the perspective of history. It was alway … more →
Alex wrote 1 year ago: I think Simeon’s on the left. I have a serious weakness for the ascetic saints, probably beca … more →
[] wrote 1 year ago: “Angels are the light of monks, and monks are the light of men.” Comment: Orthodoxy is n … more →
rhapsodysinger wrote 1 year ago: What you see above and below is what true renunciation is all about. It is fashionable to declare … more →
itshrivelsupwhenitscold wrote 1 year ago: I went on a trawl of Google’s Images the other day looking for Sadhu’s. I find them cur … more →
rhapsodysinger wrote 1 year ago: Asses and other animals go about naked without shame, whether they dwell in the house or in the fo … more →