Quotes About Renunciation

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.

Karma does not bind one who has renounced work.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Suppose I shaved off my hair and beard, put on the yellow robe, and went forth from the house life into homelessness?

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so."

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them. LUKE 17:33

La Biblia tiene una idea mejor. En lugar de buscar control absoluto, renuncia a él. No puedes controlar el mundo, pero sí puedes confiárselo a Dios. Este es el mensaje detrás del consejo de Pablo de «[ alegrarse] siempre en el Señor». La paz está al alcance, no por falta de problemas, sino debido a la presencia de un Señor soberano.

The ideal way to dollar-cost average is into a portfolio of index funds, which own every stock or bond worth having. That way, you renounce not only the guessing game of where the market is going but which sectors of the market—and which particular stocks or bonds within them—will do the best.

The one who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. Proverbs 28:13

We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

The only chance of life lies in giving up all hope of it

And the cancer deaths of those harder to describe as losers, like Freud and Wittgenstein, have been diagnosed as the gruesome penalty exacted for a lifetime of instinctual renunciation. (Few remember that Rimbaud died of cancer.)