Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Ascetics. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Ascetics Quotes And Sayings by 98 Authors including Ramakrishna,Philip K. Dick,Paul Pearsall,Franz Kafka,Allan Lokos for you to enjoy and share.

Ascetics Quotes : pic 001078232
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000251854
We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like acute disturbance of middle ear.
Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001697463
The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [ ... ] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001494421
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000134181
Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000979927
There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001221138
Literalists of the imagination
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001153133
There are no defenders of man's mind - in the world's greatest scientific-technological civilization. All that is left is a battle between the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle - between men guided by their feelings and men guided by their reflexes.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001856968
astutely observes that a Man's sense of
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000227116
These healers ... my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories ... But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000841873
Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001393589
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000143185
THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE do not come only through the senses. Some of the most exhilarating experiences we undergo are generated inside the mind, triggered by information that challenges our ability to think, rather than from the use of sensory skills. As
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001008563
The war existing between the senses and reason.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000085628
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001081823
The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age - unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000644067
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000385386
Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000403290
The linking of rationality with mysticism, knowability with what is unknown, makes it a powerful fetish that offers its programmers and users alike a sense of empowerment, of sovereign subjectivity, that covers over-barely-a sense of profound ignorance.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001474939
Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001661334
When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000940065
Psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000953951
If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001721627
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001536990
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001482213
Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public - house of the common man.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000029148
My interest in spiritual approaches to medical problems should not, however, be construed as a dismissal of science; rather it is a call for more integrated relations between science and humanities in order to transform medical cultures.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000205966
Such labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain human phenomena, raising epicycles upon epicycles ...
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000540622
Accustomed, as it is, to think of man as a dualism of mind and body, and to regard the former as "sensible" and the latter as a "dumb" animal, our cultture is an affront to the wisdom of nature and a ruinous exploitation of the human organism as a whole.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001011786
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001393213
We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers.We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000087822
The astral is the supporting ground for the physical dimension.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001421783
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000497258
The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001048930
Divination of true nature. Of motivation. Of desirous hearts. I saw the whole world in a flash and I recognized it at once: We want what we want.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000955274
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001496620
clarity of vision - especially
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000846497
These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001533372
countercantabrigianism.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000356936
Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001389554
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000602982
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000400418
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000866545
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine
A being breathing thoughtful breath
A traveler betwixt life and death
The reason firm the temperate will
Endurance Foresight Strength and skill
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001109355
This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000367161
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000363608
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000298278
Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001394742
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000401929
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000449161
Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000891772
It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000532055
Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000557626
In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000051874
Some powers come more easily to others, but Matthew rocks at reading energies."
"What?" I set my fork back down. "Our biology teacher is an alien? Holy crap ... all I can think of is that movie The Faculty." Dee choked on her orange juice. "We don't snatch bodies."
I hoped not.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000540642
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001178663
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000436014
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001338144
Passionate grave thought,
belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000267655
Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of
our foreheads.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001781003
As it happens I've spent a night and a day going through your records. Fascinating stuff." Kempis took a roll of parchment from his cloak and tossed it onto the desk. "You know what really bugs me?" Enli steepled his hands. "I'm on tenterhooks." "Anolamies." "Anomalies?" "Them too.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001242392
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001821715
Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001035318
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001576978
Every individual should, by nature, have his extraordinary points. But nowadays, you may look for them with a microscope, they are so worn-down by the regular machine-friction of our average and mechanical days.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000138437
SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray
From the great source of mental Day,
Free, generous, and refin'd!
Descend with all thy treasures fraught,
Illumine each bewilder'd thought,
And bless my labour'g mind.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000353211
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000949599
Pay attention to that which sees the mind.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000184629
Psychic awareness turns a veiled nudge into a disclosure and an indiscriminate urge into a valuable discovery.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000135514
Hey, er ... " said Zaphod, "what's your name?"
The man looked at them doubtfully.
"I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one? It seems very odd to
give a bundle of vague sensory perceptions a name.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001141466
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000261776
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000504274
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism
a Mongoloid metaphysic.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001047351
Much of the discussion in this book is about biases of intuition. However, the focus on error does not denigrate human intelligence, any more than the attention to diseases in medical texts denies good health.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001677930
Ritual of Personal Reflection.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000999313
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001400962
Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001431589
What alchemy there was in human beings.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000045806
At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001568408
The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001443602
Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001334042
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000547178
The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001564008
An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001184852
There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000648730
To become an Asetian is to die and be reborn. To forget all you have learned and learn all you have forgotten.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001574203
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000734066
That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001212948
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000744986
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001158310
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000292804
The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000056285
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000308293
In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000918052
Concentration, the suspension of time, an unobtrusive wit.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 001544539
Scientism is gnosticism wrapped in a post-modern package".

~R. Alan Woods [2009]
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000622136
... growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000880129
Analyzing everyday situations using a systematic approach similar to that utilized by physicians when investigating a medical mysteries can result in better choices.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000617328
The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.
Ascetics Quotes : pic 000549980
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.