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A shortcut involving fasting, cold exposure, or bodily collapse that shifts consciousness toward the spiritual.
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self-denial
A shortcut involving fasting, cold exposure, or bodily collapse that shifts consciousness toward the spiritual.
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Self-denial practices such as fasting or exposure to cold can collapse the body so consciousness shifts into the spiritual.
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Schopenhauer's solution is compassion, art, and self-denial, a secularized Buddhist/Hindu logic culminating in nirvana through desire removal.
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In Jiang's reading, Augustine's humility means self-denial, self-negation, complete obedience, and ultimately obedience to the Catholic Church.
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"...So that's one hack. Another hack that you can use is self -denial. Okay? So it's possible you can starve yourself, fasting. Okay? It's..."
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"...says that there are some of us who should engage in self -denial, who should become like monks, who should deny the world, because..."
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"Does that make sense? So he says, Life has no intrinsic worth but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion. And as..."
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"...here. So he concludes. That is why humility, humility just means self -denial, self -negation. Complete obedience. Forget who you are. It doesn't matter...."
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"This is why humility is highly praised in the city of God, and especially enjoined on the city of God during the time of..."
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"...for the world, and as such engages in a process of self -denial, self -negation. He refuses to procreate, he refuses to struggle, he..."
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"...So, again, this is the very idea for the Catholic Church. Self -denial, self -negation. Okay? Now, you can think about this and understand..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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