Myths & mysteries
Asceticism originally just meant athletic training
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Before it became entirely associated with starving yourself in a desert, the Greek word for this was just what wrestlers did to prepare for the Olympics. Early spiritual overachievers hijacked the term, applying the grueling discipline of professional sports to rejecting worldly pleasures. Instead of lifting heavy things to get swole, they started carrying heavy burdens to systematically destroy their own egos.
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