Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year to an orgy of austerity, begging door to door, wearing a barbed girdle, fasting for days on end. For months he endured the terrible depressions of the mystic's dark night of the soul, even contemplating suicide at one point. But what followed was the mystic's singular reward, an immense breakthrough to enlightenment. In a wave of ecstatic illumination one day at the River Cardoner, Inigo became, in his own words, "another...
...couldn't believe they would beat an injured prisoner. Later I found out that that was their technique to break you. You're most vulnerable when first captured and injured. I finally wrote something like 'We should seek peace at the peace table.'" His reward was a shot of penicillin...
...many ways and most often call Brahman. The principal focus of spirituality is union with that Absolute. Above all else, the Hindu desires a release from the physical world of appearances in order to realize his identity with Brahman. This oneness is not easy to achieve; it is the reward of the holy man, who can then finally break out of the cycle of endless reincarnations...
Although police have found neither the coins nor the youths, Daniel J. Robbins, director of the Fogg Art Museum, said that an anonymous phone caller told a museum guard on Friday that the coins would be returned sometime this week. Robbins added that a reward has been offered for the return of the coins--how much he declined...
...believe that the day has come when we can combine sensory deprivation with drugs, hypnosis and astute manipulation of reward and punishment to gain absolute control over an individual's behavior...