"Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind;transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature." (from Ralph Waldo Emerson)
How can you practice asceticism when you are "full of words" all the time?
Practice silence.
Observe nature.
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