Quotes About Renunciation

Valía más renunciar, porque la renuncia a la acción era la protesta misma y no su máscara.

porque fuiste siempre un espejo terrible, una espantosa máquina de repeticiones, y lo que llamamos amarnos fue quizá que yo estaba de pie delante de vos, con una flor amarilla en la mano, y vos sostenías dos velas verdes y el tiempo soplaba contra nuestras caras una lenta lluvia de renuncias y despedidas y tickets de metro.

fuiste siempre un espejo terrible, una espantosa máquina de repeticiones, y lo que llamamos amarnos fue quizá que yo estaba de pie delante de vos, con una flor amarilla en la mano, y vos sostenías dos velas verdes y el tiempo soplaba contra nuestras caras una lenta lluvia de renuncias y despedidas y tickets de metro.

When I gave up the tying of ribbons, still I tied my garment about me: When I gave up tying my garment, still I covered my body in its folds. So when I give up passion, I see that anger remains; And when I renounce anger, greed is still with me still; And when greed is vanquished, pride and vainglory remain; When the mind is detached and casts Maya away,still it clings to the latter. Kabir says, 'Listen to me, dear Sadhu! the true path is rarely found.

Now I live in complete bliss. My every moment is an overwhelming joy. You have chosen the world and its miseries, and have given up joy and bliss. Tell me, young man. Is it I who is the renunciate? Or you?

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

Settling Down is seen as something of a renunciation of the Good Life (it is, of course, for most, a swapping of one sort of good life for another).

The reply to the question Who is my neighbor? plunges us into the scandal of Jesus. The way of tenderness is not chronic niceness, sloppy sentimentality, or a soporific spirituality for the softheaded. The spiritual life isn't a theory. Living the spiritual life, treading the way of tenderness, calls for radical conversion, renunciation of a circumscribed moral code, and al life of humble service.

All ceremonial events such as initiation (baptism) and incorporation, signs of communal membership, signify in the final analysis the renunciation of the intimate sphere of the person, if not emotionally, as in the bond of a biological blood-based kinship, then nevertheless spiritually, ideationally, and symbolically.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

I sat and talked with Alexandros in the deaf and dumb language of the heart. In a few minutes, I would have to go. I was not unhappy about it; there are experiences so wonderful, so unique, that the thought of prolonging them seems like the basest form of ingratitude. If I were not to go now then I should stay forever, turn my back on the world, renounce everything

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don't want anything then you already have everything.

Every time we discerningly renounce a possession, we free up energy that can be channeled into the pursuit of dharma. Renunciation was never meant to be for its own sake, but for the sake

Every time we discerningly renounce a possession, we free up energy that can be channeled into the pursuit of dharma. Renunciation was never meant to be for its own sake, but for the sake of dharma.

I shaved my hair. I wore robes. I slept on the floor. We meditated for four to eight hours a day.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Perguntou-lhe: «E porque é que não te serves da tua força contra mim, de vez em quando?» «Porque amar é renunciar à força», disse Franz, com doçura. Sabina percebeu duas coisas: primeiro, que aquela frase era bela e verdadeira. Segundo, que com aquela frase Franz acabava de se desqualificar na sua vida erótica.

Y por qué no utilizas nunca tu fuerza contra mí? -Porque amar significa renunciar a la fuerza -

Y por qué no utilizas nunca tu fuerza contra mí? -Porque amar significa renunciar a la fuerza – dijo Franz con suavidad. Sabina se dio cuenta de 2 cosas: en primer lugar, de que aquella frase era hermosa y cierta. En segundo lugar, de que, al pronunciarla, Franz quedaba descalificado para su vida erótica

Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.