Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow.” — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do… — William Law Copy Share Image
... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.) — African Spir Copy Share Image
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“The result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“You will have to suffer the consequences of all that you renounce. Is it in our control to renounce (tyaag)? Is it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“During long cross-country wanders, you do glimpse that freedom of pure renunciation. When you walk for a long time, there comes a… — Frédéric Gros Copy Share Image
“Even though [an ascetic] may wear white or ochre attire, yet vikalp (the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’ and all the relative… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real.… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“So what is the answer? How can you stand your ground when you are weak and sensitive to pain, when people you… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death,… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“And he is not at an age right for renunciation; he has not even entered the stage of the householder, as befits… — Bāṇabhaṭṭa Copy Share Image
![“Even though [an ascetic] may wear white or ochre attire, yet vikalp (the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’ and all the relative ‘I-ness’ that stems from it) does not go away. A householder will have false notions (vikalp) that, 'I am aquiring things,' whereas an ascetic will have false notions that 'I…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/778/dada-bhagwan-31_faith_even-though-an-ascetic-may-wear-white-or_1813414.jpg)
