Renunciation Quotes
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.
Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.
How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.
The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
