But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The only difference between a Gnani and a renunciate is that the Gnani prevails in a state of saiyam (absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence), whereas a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“Try to understand this rightly. When the powerful renounce, they let go of things that they feel to be worthless, of no… — Osho Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In fact, without renunciation (tyaag), nothing [no spiritual development] can happen. Renunciation of what? Complete renunciation of illusion (bhranti)! Complete renunciation of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonement finite and forgetting and whole—but time in… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
“You do not have to renounce anything. The path of liberation is not one of acquisition or renunciation at all. Acquisition and renunciation are… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“As long as one does not have Knowledge of the Self, his renunciation (tyaag) will give result. And after attaining the Knowledge of the Self, there… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively… — Bernd Becher 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
“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
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. — Anonymous 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
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image