Fasting, mortification, sacrifices, prayers and oblations, none of these purifies a mortal who has n
Fasting, mortification, sacrifices, prayers and oblations, none of these purifies a mortal who has not conquered doubt and who has not overcome desire. Two extremes are avoided by those who detach themselves from the world: ’ the pleasure of desire, low, vulgar, unworthy of the nature of Aryia, harmful; self mortification, painful, unworthy of the nature of the Aryia, harmful. Avoiding these two extremes, the middle way has been discovered by the Accomplished One, the way which gives insight, which gives wisdom, which leads to calm, to supernormal consciousness, to illumination, to extinction.Taken from The Doctrine of Awakening by Julius Evola -- source link
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