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Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“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.”

World States Desire Views Ideals Destruction Resistance Realised Renunciation Worldliness Destructiveness

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.”

Firsts Self Love Is Teacher Self Love Renunciation

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.”

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

“There is no end to renunciation.”

Ends Renunciation

Book:Vedanta: Voice of Freedom

Source: Vedanta: Voice of Freedom

“There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.”

Self Renunciation

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.”

Men Religion Bears Higher One Day Flow Lakes Risen Renunciation Dams

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by it. Possess things, but don't be possessed by them. Have things - that's not a problem. I am not for renunciation. Enjoy everything that life gives, but always remain free.”

Giving Use Problem Used Enjoy Misery Live Life Attachment Possessed Renunciation

Author:Rajneesh

“The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.”

Littles Almighty Renounce Renunciation Devotee Little Love

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation.”

Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature

“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.”

War Use Purpose Opportunity Taken Constitution Pressure Japan Genocide Articles Renunciation

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“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.”

“A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.”

People Two Real Passion Doubt Alive Stage Drink Illusion Unions Technique Rings Separation Unhappiness Sensations Fulfilled Telephones Renunciation Artificiality

Author:Cyril Connolly

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

Ifs World Heart Tears God Love Renunciation

Author:Muhammad Ali

“A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.”

Freedom Pleasure Hot Consolation Baths Exquisite Renunciation Luxurious Austerity Hot Baths Rigour

Book:Personal Pleasures

Source: Personal Pleasures

“Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.”

Humility Pride Renunciation Substitution

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.”

Heart Feelings Religion Universe Simple Duty Infinite Restriction Renunciation

Book:Letters: 1910-1926

Source: Letters: 1910-1926

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

Way Wish Excellence Crowns Renunciation

Author:Hafez

“The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.”

Years States America United United States Taken Citizens Fundamentals Statements Immigrants Vow Solemn Allegiance Oath Renunciation

Author:Jim Ryun

“It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.”

Women Pay Careers Conflict Daring Venture Femininity Unwilling Renunciation

Book:Feminine Psychology

Source: Feminine Psychology

“Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.”

Nature Teach Objects Lessons Selflessness Renunciation

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.”

Source: God Talks With Arjuna

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