Self-deprivation is his art, which he practices with fervent determination and on public display.
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Self-deprivation could, after all, be rebranded as a form of vanity, of narcissism, of immoderation — taking more than one's due by another script.
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All of the things that felt so internally contrary to my truest self were rectified as I unraveled a long web of denial and self-deprivation.
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This tension reflects a wider cultural issue: What should the role of Lent be in a society deeply uncomfortable with self-deprivation for its own sake, one that increasingly focuses on "positivity" and "self-improvement"?
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Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research, suggested that while holidays like Christmas provide opportunity for celebration and familial togetherness, the demands of Lent — a period of self-deprivation and reflection — are far less desirable.
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While our first instinct might be to swear off shopping sprees, morning lattes, and, well, any form of treating ourselves until 2018, we're not in the business of self-deprivation — plus, where's the fun in that?
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"I learned so much about being independent, feeling less shameful and guilty, I learned about self-love instead of self-deprivation and so much more," she said, before revealing that she returned to the facility again in June.
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" And while other hotels offer luxury suites and sweeping views of Sarajevo's old town to guests looking for a particularly memorable stay, Mr. Kurbasic offers the ultimate in self-deprivation — "the bunker," a windowless dungeon room so hellishly and deliberately uncomfortable that, he said, "it is insane to want to sleep there.
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He was about age 24 when he resigned from the hospital and committed himself to three months of isolation and self-deprivation in the forest—a shamanic practice known as dieta. By age 26, he was practicing vegetalismo.
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Story of the narrator meeting and talking to two peasants at a little spring called Raspberry Water (which did exist and still exists in Russia). Here the narrator is very distant, akin to early Realist narrators, and learns of the self-deprivation peasants take upon themselves through the recollections of the old peasant named Foggy.
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SLAA encourages recovery from sexual anorexia, emotional anorexia and social anorexia, three related areas of self-deprivation that lead to isolation and often accompany patterns of addictive behavior. SLAA publishes the book Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. It is approved by the organization for use in their fellowship. In an article regarding the applicability of 12-Step fellowships to black women, Feminist theorist Christine Saulnier criticized the SLAA book, contending that it ignored the social and political circumstances under which sexual behaviors arise and are labeled deviant.
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" Cord Cutters believed that the fact that Peridot and Lapis Lazuli do not perform fusion in the episode despite their strong relationship was a meaningful choice from the crew of Steven Universe: "Lapis Lazuli was in an abusive relationship for months before she was set free by Steven and the Crystal Gems. Peridot, on the other hand, was someone who never got to learn how to love herself because she spent most of her life being looked down on or forced to think logically to the point of self- deprivation.
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After Siddhartha had mastered all the teachings of Alara Kalama and then Uddaka Ramaputta, he left and began practicing self mortification along with Kaundinya and his four colleagues at Uruvela. Kaundinya and his colleagues attended to Siddhartha in the hope that he would become enlightened through self-mortification. These involved self-deprivation of food and water, and exposing themselves to the elements to near-death for six years, at which point Siddhartha rejected self-mortification. Kaundinya and his colleagues became disillusioned, believing Siddhartha to have become a glutton and moved away to Sarnath near Varanasi to continue their practices.
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St. Marciana was born in Toledo, Spain to a family of nobility. Nevertheless, she abhorred the worldly benefits of a high social status and she put aside her worldly riches. She decided to travel to Caesarea, Mauretania (modern-day Algeria) and lock herself in a cell within a cave in order to preserve her virginity (for she was said to be very beautiful) and consecrate herself to God through various exercises in fasts and other practices of self-deprivation that were used in lieu of martyrdom. Caesarea was by that time occupied by the Roman Empire under the Emperor Diocletian (284-305 A.D.) and hence, Roman influence was rampant around that city.
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Literary evidence suggests that this tradition continued for a long time, well into the common era, and both Jewish men and women could follow the ascetic path, with examples such as the ascetic practices for fourteen years by Queen Helena of Adiabene, and by Miriam of Tadmor. After the Jews returned from the Babylonian exile and the Mosaic institution was done away with, a different form of asceticism arose when Antiochus IV Epiphanes threatened the Jewish religion in 167 BC. The Hasidaean-Essene tradition of the second Temple period is described as one of the movements within historic Jewish asceticism between 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE. Ascetic Jewish sects existed in ancient and medieval era times, most notably the Essenes and Ebionites. According to Allan Nadler, two most significant examples of medieval Jewish asceticism have been Havoth ha-Levavoth and Hasidei Ashkenaz. Pious self-deprivation was a part of the dualism and mysticism in these ascetic groups.
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