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
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
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. — Jack Kornfield 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
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham 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
How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation. — Hafez Copy Share Image
“Renunciation is dropping the fear, anger, respect, and disrespect but continuously radiating unconditional love for everyone.” — Amit Ray 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
Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World -… — Swami Vivekananda 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
“I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is meant to be hard. Perhaps there are some things so previous that one can only be tested when one… — Sheri S. Tepper 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
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
“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
