| He had now experienced both the extremes of a life of ease and comfort and the life of extreme austerity and asceticism. |
| You seem to have found a balance between absolute asceticism and utter hedonism. |
| Nevertheless, a wide variety of views on asceticism are found in the Talmud. |
| Gymnosophy was originally the doctrines of a sect of philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation. |
| In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism. |
| The result can be monastically bare, as though he is looking for whatever lies on the other side of asceticism. |
