Ascesis

Quick meaning: Ascesis is a noun meaning (Rigorous) self-discipline, particularly as a religious observance; asceticism.

Meaning

(Rigorous) self-discipline, particularly as a religious observance; asceticism.

More Meanings

1. (Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, specifically) The praxis or "exercise" of asceticism and self-denial of impulses or passions for the sake of piety, theosis, and connection with God.

Example Sentences

Unlike dreams, visions tend to remain in one's memory, especially those experienced in meditative and related forms of asceses.

The happiness of the Oriental psyche lies in the ecstasy of feeling united with the universal cosmos. Ascesis, self-redemption, and poverty are better realized ideals in Oriental culture than in our Western society.

This intellectual discipline, this progressive unification and concentration of the mind is an important part of the preparatory ascesis, the work of purification which must be carried through before any approach towards the mystical union can be expected.

How do I speak to you at the same time, my female and male readers? […] I long for these exchanges because of what they reveal to me, their discoveries, but also their opacities or nights. I want them for their resources and the affective asceses which they bring with them.

Word Forms

• asceses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apostasy, self-abasement, self-renunciation, ascension, self-ordination, sadhana.

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