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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 - 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• There is no end to renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ends

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.147, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

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• If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Tears, World

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• A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

  Victor Hugo

  Self, Atheism, Advancement

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Two

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• Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Kings, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

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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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• No freedom without renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

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• 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.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  War, Taken, Opportunity

  "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Kenzaburo Oe's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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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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• A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Independent, Belief, Dogma

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2221, Manonmani Publishers

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

  Simone Weil

  War, Self, Ready

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.159, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• With renunciation life begins.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Literature

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