“He had now experienced both the extremes of a life of ease and comfort and the life of extreme austerity and asceticism.”

“Gymnosophy was originally the doctrines of a sect of philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation.”

“Orthodox voices counteract the sinful human tendency to apotheosize human striving with calls for wisdom and asceticism.”

“He left the luxuries of court for a life as an ascetic.”

“Missionaries in the African churches, and probably elsewhere, were normally unmarried ascetics living in the utmost simplicity.”

“Mystics and ascetics have been telling us for ages that the goal of life is to learn how to die.”

“In his time, ascetics and recluses again made an attempt to enter the Guru's flock.”