self-mastery

  • 81discipline — [n1] regimen, training conduct, control, cultivation, curb, development, domestication, drill, drilling, education, exercise, inculcation, indoctrination, limitation, method, orderliness, practice, preparation, regulation, restraint, self command …

    New thesaurus

  • 82Chastity — For other uses, see Chastity (disambiguation). Allegory of chastity by Hans Memling Chastity refers to the sexual behavior of a man or woman acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of a culture, civilization, or religion. In the western… …

    Wikipedia

  • 83Dionysian Mysteries — Dionysus in Bacchus by Caravaggio The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the… …

    Wikipedia

  • 84Montage sequence — A montage sequence is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots is edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole (often to suggest the passage of time), rather than to create… …

    Wikipedia

  • 85Basil Maturin — Basil William Maturin (* 15. Februar 1847 in Irland; † 7. Mai 1915 im Atlantik vor Irland) war ein irischer Geistlicher, Autor und ab 1913 Kaplan der Universität von Oxford. Er veröffentlichte mehrere Bücher, die sich mit religiösen und auch… …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 86Nietzsche, Friedrich — (1844–1900) Born in Prussia, the son of a Lutheran minister who died insane four years later, Nietzsche spent the years of childhood with his mother, sister, grandmother, and two maiden aunts. In 1858 he entered boarding school, and in spite of… …

    Philosophy dictionary

  • 87Hinayana — Hīnayāna (Chinese: 小乘 Xiǎochèng ; Korean: 소승 Soseung ; Japanese: Shōjō ; Vietnamese: Tiểu thừa , bo|t=ཐེག་ཅུང་|w=, Mongolian: бага хөлгөн, baga kölgen ) is a Sanskrit and Pali term literally meaning:, the low vehicle , the inferior vehicle , or… …

    Wikipedia

  • 88English poetry — The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry, Ford Madox Brown. The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western… …

    Wikipedia

  • 89Eknath Easwaran — (December 17, 1910 – October 26, 1999[1]) was a spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain… …

    Wikipedia

  • 90Eromenos — In the pederastic tradition of Classical Athens, the eromenos (Greek ἐρώμενος, pl. ἐρώμενοι, eromenoi ) was an adolescent boy who was in a love relationship with an adult man, known as the erastes (ἐραστής).The term for the role often varied from …

    Wikipedia