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The person who quit everything and somehow feels richer than you.
means A person who practices severe self-discipline and abstains from worldly pleasures, usually for spiritual or moral reasons.
from From Greek 'askētēs,' meaning one who practices or trains — originally an athlete's word. The 'asking' of askēsis was exercise, the grind of the gymnasium. Early Christian monks and hermits borrowed the metaphor: instead of training the body for the arena, they trained the soul through fasting, prayer, and renunciation. So the spiritual hardcore inherited their name from sweating athletes — the marathon, just inward.
- word origin
- From Greek askesis, meaning athletic training
- famous case
- Simeon lived 37 years atop a pillar
- fasting science
- Hunger sharpens focus, then quietly rewires the brain
- hidden flex
- Owning nothing is the ultimate untouchable status symbol
- every religion
- Each major faith bred its own extreme renouncers
jainism monks — practice complete nudity and extreme fasting in india for millennia
tibetan buddhist hermits — retreat to mountain caves in tibet for years or decades of meditation