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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere…
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle…
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each…
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy…
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this…
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious…
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain…
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity…
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
— Albert Camus
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Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
— Robert Baker Aitken
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.
— Swami Vivekananda
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy…
— Eric Hoffer
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Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious…
— Matthieu Ricard
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I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there…
— Rajneesh
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason…
— Samuel Adams
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"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
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…
— Swami Vivekananda
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