Word: asceticism
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The figure at the center of this debate was born into a Jewish family in Breslau, m,hGermany, in 1891. She studied philosophy at universities in Breslau and Gottingen. In 1922, after reading a biography of the 16th century mystic St. Teresa of Avila, Stein was baptized a Catholic. For...
Remar's book Body Worry (you didn't think there was a book in this?) has just been shipped by Viking to bookstores at $17.95 a copy, so I convinced my editors that we should check out this ego trek at the scene of his make-over haven in Freeport...
The round-figured Khashoggi, who could pass as an amiable neighborhood shopkeeper, has been described as the world's richest man, though he probably never was and certainly is not now. He sometimes seems to be dancing a curious line between fabulous profits and grim losses. What he was and...
The secret of Therese's overnight success was simple: she had a genius for loving Jesus. "Passing by me," she wrote, "Jesus saw that I was ripe for love. He plighted His troth to me and I became His." No self-denial attended this betrothal, only the deepest and most...
The Burmese monks are supposed to lead a very ascetic life, one meal a day and only six belongings and lots of chanting and of course celibacy, but they didn't act much like it. At any one time, three or four of the monks would seat themselves in a...