Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that. — Leonard Cohen 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
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. — Jack Kornfield 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
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
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
“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
“Renunciation is actually a result of the unfolding karma, whereas saiyam, a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence, is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires,… — Bhagavad Gita 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 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
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
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
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
“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
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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