Renunciation Quotes

• We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Regret

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 04, 2014

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• Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

  Noah Levine

  Letting Go, Hurt, Pain

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• Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

  Robert Baker Aitken

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Passing Away

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization". Book by Jawara D. King, p. 20, 2010.

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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 power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Meditation, Done, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1650, Manonmani Publishers

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• Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Love Is, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1858, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Zero, Giving Up, Sacrifice

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Rebel, Doe

  "Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews" by Julie Marie Wade, therumpus.net. December 1, 2017.

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• How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

  Hafez

  Excellence, Wish, Crowns

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• It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Old Habits, Meditation

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• Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Views, Desire, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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• He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Humble, Desire, Triumph

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “Poems”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God Love, Highest

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, True Life

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Letting Go, Expectations, Piercings

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.330, Harvard University Press

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• Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

  Charles Dickens

  Sorrow, Abstinence, Remains

  "The Mill on the Floss". Book by Charles Dickens, 1860.

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• Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Sun, Devotion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce it? What is the point in renouncing it if you are not attached to it? Only attachment renounces. If you are really non-attached there is no question of any renunciation.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, World, Renounce

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• Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fearless

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4632, Manonmani Publishers

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• With renunciation life begins.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Literature

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• Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Race, Made, Ideals

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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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 idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cutting, Ideas, Chains That Bind

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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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 did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

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• What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Marriage, Literature, Stones

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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• Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Ideas, Ratios

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

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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 taste of simplicity and deep peace.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Children, Lying

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