Ascetic
noun
A person who chooses to live in a simple way, without the usual physical pleasures and comforts, usually for religious reasons.
Monks in the monastery live an ascetic lifestyle.
Often appears as...
- ascetic lifestyle
- ascetic discipline
adjective
Practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline.
The priest lived an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor.
Often appears as...
- ascetic life
- ascetic practices
noun
A person who chooses to live in a simple way, without the usual physical pleasures and comforts, usually for religious reasons.
Monks in the monastery live an ascetic lifestyle.
Often appears as...
- ascetic lifestyle
- ascetic discipline
adjective
Practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline.
The priest lived an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor.
Often appears as...
- ascetic life
- ascetic practices
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Motivation
Ascetics often choose simplicity for deep religious or spiritual reasons, not just for lifestyle preferences.
The ascetic renounced worldly possessions to grow closer to the divine.
Pro Tip 2/3Voluntary Simplicity
An ascetic's simple life is a personal choice, not the result of poverty or external limitations.
Despite being wealthy, she chose an ascetic life focused on spiritual growth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Monks
'Ascetic' can refer to any individual practicing self-discipline, not solely monks or religious figures.
Steve Jobs was known for his ascetic tendencies, such as his simple attire.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Motivation
Ascetics often choose simplicity for deep religious or spiritual reasons, not just for lifestyle preferences.
The ascetic renounced worldly possessions to grow closer to the divine.
Pro Tip 2/3Voluntary Simplicity
An ascetic's simple life is a personal choice, not the result of poverty or external limitations.
Despite being wealthy, she chose an ascetic life focused on spiritual growth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Monks
'Ascetic' can refer to any individual practicing self-discipline, not solely monks or religious figures.
Steve Jobs was known for his ascetic tendencies, such as his simple attire.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Motivation
Ascetics often choose simplicity for deep religious or spiritual reasons, not just for lifestyle preferences.
The ascetic renounced worldly possessions to grow closer to the divine.
Pro Tip 2/3Voluntary Simplicity
An ascetic's simple life is a personal choice, not the result of poverty or external limitations.
Despite being wealthy, she chose an ascetic life focused on spiritual growth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Monks
'Ascetic' can refer to any individual practicing self-discipline, not solely monks or religious figures.
Steve Jobs was known for his ascetic tendencies, such as his simple attire.
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How climate change...
Over the last year and a half, I've been conducting workshops and interviews with hundreds of people about parenting in the climate crisis. And I can tell you that people who are worried about having kids because of climate change are not motivated by an ascetic pride.
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What's your 200-year...
both come from families that really look up to humility and wisdom but we both like to live larger than life I believe in the concept of a raja yogi be a dude before you can become an ascetic this is me being a rock star even if it's in my
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Taking DNA from a...
although it looks like it's fully come round already it's just responding to the air to the stimulus of being moved so I'm going to back out and make Kathy come in and and reverse the an ascetic with an injection per line of sailors
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The Triumph and Tragedy...
it was a shrine not just prayer room he had his guards and everything there and he used to clean it himself he didn't allow servants to go in nothing he was very ascetic person as hindu gangs encircled their
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How climate change...
Over the last year and a half, I've been conducting workshops and interviews with hundreds of people about parenting in the climate crisis. And I can tell you that people who are worried about having kids because of climate change are not motivated by an ascetic pride.
Video examples
What's your 200-year...
both come from families that really look up to humility and wisdom but we both like to live larger than life I believe in the concept of a raja yogi be a dude before you can become an ascetic this is me being a rock star even if it's in my
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Taking DNA from a...
although it looks like it's fully come round already it's just responding to the air to the stimulus of being moved so I'm going to back out and make Kathy come in and and reverse the an ascetic with an injection per line of sailors
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The Triumph and Tragedy...
it was a shrine not just prayer room he had his guards and everything there and he used to clean it himself he didn't allow servants to go in nothing he was very ascetic person as hindu gangs encircled their
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Sadhu Vaswani
Indian Educator
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Lisa Lutz
American Author
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.
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Caleb Carr
American Novelist
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
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Alma Gluck
American Musician
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
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.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
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A. J. Liebling
American Journalist
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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Robert M. Parker, Jr.
American Critic
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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Sixto Rodriguez
American Musician
I'm not an ascetic.
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David Mamet
American Dramatist
I'm not an ascetic.
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Sadhu Vaswani
Indian Educator
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Lisa Lutz
American Author
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.
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Caleb Carr
American Novelist
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
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Alma Gluck
American Musician
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
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.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
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A. J. Liebling
American Journalist
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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Robert M. Parker, Jr.
American Critic
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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Sixto Rodriguez
American Musician
I'm not an ascetic.
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David Mamet
American Dramatist
I'm not an ascetic.
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