Quotes About Renunciation

Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it. Renunciation confers an infinite power.

Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.

Renunciation is the only kind of action that is not degrading.

The most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought.

you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

Renunciation is submission to time.

At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.

Credo di essere più bravo ad abbandonarle le cose che a rubarle.

La renuncia no quita. La renuncia da. Da la fuerza inagotable de lo sencillo. El aliento (del camino de campo) hace morar en un largo origen.

Bir ÅŸeyi tutup ona sahip olmak istediÄŸimizde hayattaki say?s?z baÅŸka ÅŸeyden feragat ederek bunlar?n sa??ndan solundan geçip gitmek zorunda kal?r?z

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness—to value the failure of your values—is an insolent negation of morality.

Life demands death to self

I shall not set my desires on things of the world.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.

You must be willing for ever to leave all the ease, and pleasure, and profit of sin, to forsake all for salvation, as Lot forsook all, and left all he had, to escape out of Sodom.

el camino de la heroica renunciación que el destino le ordenaba recorrer de rodillas.