Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. . . . Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute. . . to. . . the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. . . . a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, somehing valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly exisiting. All that you are give up is actually a vague identity. You realize thigs is not true; it's noe the ultimate. This how and why to develop renunciation
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.
Renunciation is in our blood.
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.
Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.
Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.
Renunciation is submission to time.
Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing
There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.
As a parent you have to do some renunciation.
Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.
There is no end to renunciation.