Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.” — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“2.27 THE ULTIMATE With compassion and renunciation walking, With wants and desires ever shedding, With love within one’s heart flowing, Peace and… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“To renounce active life in the world rather than one's own grasping and clinging is to forgo the chance to awaken.” — Dale S. Wright Copy Share Image
“I have in all humility felt that perfect renunciation [of fruits] is impossible without perfect observance of ahimsa in every shape and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation… — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account.… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Although other ( yānas ) assert that liberation will be achieved by renouncing the objects, one will not be bound by the… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The penance and renunciation that one is told to do is actually under the authority of the non-Self (parsatta). So how can… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image