Quotes About Renunciation

I tried to go the renunciate's way, to forget the needs of the body in order to avoid the suffering of the Ego. But the Soul depends on the Ego's drama for its teachings. We have to be in the world to learn from it.

It is only women who manage to put at times into their love an element just palpable enough to give one a fright—an extra-terrestrial touch. I ask myself with wonder—how the world can look to them—whether it has the shape and substance `we know, the air `we breathe! Sometimes I fancy it must be a region of unreasonable sublimities seething with the excitement of their adventurous souls, lighted by the glory of all possible risks and renunciations.

The Pali word parami refers to ten wholesome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity.

He wants men of greatest generosity and self-sacrificing," he wrote, "who renounce their own will and embrace his will instead." So, "Lord, if that is thy will in regard to me, unworthy one, I embrace it fully and promise with thy grace to remain faithful to the end to thy most holy will. This is my life, my joy, my strength and courage.

El apego es la incapacidad de renunciar a determinadas cosas cuando nos hacen daño, nos quitan libertad y generan malestar emocional.

Lo que define el apego no es tanto el deseo como la incapacidad de renunciar a él.

La belleza interior es la que se emplea por una necesidad interior imperiosa, renunciando a la belleza habitual. Naturalmente, parece fea al que no está acostumbrado a ella, ya que el ser humano en general tiende a lo externo y no está dispuesto a reconocer la necesidad interior (¡especialmente hoy!)

Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.

There is a difference between seeking to know things for the sake of knowledge itself and being willing to undergo renunciation to be possessed by the truth.

In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

Capitalist society, at its present stage, is incapable of establishing a concept of the rights of all men, just as it has proved incapable of establishing a system of individual ethics. Whether one likes it or not, at the end of the blind alley that is Europe, I mean the Europe of Adenauer, Schuman, Bidault, and a few others, there is Hitler. At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.

Give up everything, even peace.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

He who has renounced (the 'I-thought') thus, remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara

Giving up all notions about country, caste, blemishless community,asrama (status as a bachelor, family man, ascetic or one who has renounced the world) and associated matters, hold on to and practise always meditation upon the Self, your own natural state.

No matter what we want of life — we have to give up something in order to get it.

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their own race or tradition and who hope, by means of renunciation, to assure for themselves a future world where, to use a Nietzschean expression, the inversion of all values will occur.

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving. " 'Sacrifice,' " he remembered

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

You can only lose what you cling to.