Renunciation Quotes

“The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.”
― Carl Jung

“To believe that life's problems will somehow work themselves out, everything bad is fixable and something about samsara has to be worth fighting for makes it virtually impossible to nurture a genuine, all-consuming desire to practise the dharma. The only view that truly works for a dharma practitioner is that there are no solutions to the sufferings of samsara and it cannot be fixed.”
― Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices

“It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.”
― Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices

“I never use the word renunciation at all. I say: "Rejoice in life,in love,in meditation,in the beauties of the world, in the ecstasy of existence--rejoice in everything!" Transform the mundane into the sacred. Transform this shore ino the other shore, transform the earth into paradise.
And then indirectly a certain renunciation starts happening. But that happens,you don't do it. It is not a doing, it is a happening.”
― Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

“Renunciation is transforming all negative and positive energies of life into unconditional love for every being in the universe.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“The whole journey of renunciation, or starting to say yes to life, is first of all realizing that you've come up against your edge, that everything in you is saying no, and then at that point, softening. This is yet another opportunity to develop loving-kindness of yourself, which results in playfulness--learning to play like a raven in the wind.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

“Renunciation is dropping the fear, anger, respect, and disrespect but continuously radiating unconditional love for everyone.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“Renunciation is the art of removing the barriers between one’s self and others.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“So what is the answer? How can you stand your ground when you are weak and sensitive to pain, when people you love are still alive, when you are unprepared?
What do you need to make you stronger than the Interrogator and the whole trap?
From the moment you go to prison you must put your cozy past firmly behind you. At the very threshold, you must say to yourself: "My life is over, a little early to be sure, but there's nothing to be done about it. I shall never return to freedom. I am condemned to die—now or a little later. But later on, in truth, it will be even harder, and so the sooner the better. I no longer have any property whatsoever. For me those I love have died, and for them I have died. From today on, my body is useless and alien to me. Only my spirit and my conscience remain precious and important to me."
Confronted by such a prisoner, the Interrogation will tremble.
Only the man who has renounced everything can win that victory.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.”
― Ray Mancini, Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition

“I realized that in refusing to take a vow man was drawn into temptation, and that to be bound by a vow was like a passage from libertinism to a real monogamous marriage. 'I believe in effort, I do not want to bind myself with vows' is the mentality of weakness and betrays a subtle desire for the thing to be avoided. Or where can be the difficulty in making a final decision? I vow to flee from the serpent which I know will bite me, I do not simply make an effort to flee from him. I know that mere effort may mean certain death. Mere effort means ignorance of the certain fact that the serpent is bound to kill me. The fact, therefore, that I could rest content with an effort only means that I have not yet clearly realized the necessity of definite action. 'But supposing my views are changed in the future, how can I bind myself by a vow?' Such a doubt often deters us. But that doubt also betrays a lack of clear perception that a particular thing must be renounced. That is why Nishkulanand has sung:
'Renunciaton without aversion is not lasting.'
Where therefore the desire is gone, a vow of renunciation is the natural and inevitable fruit.”
― M.K Gandhi

“I wanted to be a sadhu. But what good would it do for me to be a sadhu in India? A real test of faith would be to go back to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping countries on earth [America] and be a sadhu there.”
― Daniel Suelo, The Man Who Quit Money

“To know what one must forbid oneself.”
― Joubert

“I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the Absolute Divine state of Unification with the Universe, I realized that the purpose of life is not renunciation of anything, but the realization of the purpose itself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“Saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) cannot be attained through egoism. Renunciation can take place through egoism. In renouncing, doership is required, there needs to be a doer of the renunciation.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Death: Before, During After...

“Even though [an ascetic] may wear white or ochre attire, yet vikalp (the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’ and all the relative ‘I-ness’ that stems from it) does not go away. A householder will have false notions (vikalp) that, 'I am aquiring things,' whereas an ascetic will have false notions that 'I am renouncing.' Just imagine, there is nothing but vikalp, vikalp, and vikalp! In such a situation, how can one become nirvikalp (free from the belief that, ‘I am Chandubhai’ and with the right belief that, ‘I am pure Soul’)?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“In fact, without renunciation (tyaag), nothing [no spiritual development] can happen. Renunciation of what? Complete renunciation of illusion (bhranti)! Complete renunciation of the ego (ahamkar)!! Complete renunciation of the my-ness (mamata)!!!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Harmony in Marriage

“Renunciation (tyaag) should be natural and spontaneous. [That which is to be renounced] should fall off on its own indeed.   ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“The One whose ego (ahamkar) and my-ness (mamata) go away completely, is considered a complete tyaagi (one who has renounced worldly life). ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Noble Use of Money

“You will have to suffer the consequences of all that you renounce. Is it in our control to renounce (tyaag)? Is it in our control to acquire (grahan)? That is actually dependent upon one's merit-demerit karma (punya-paap)!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Noble Use of Money

“The only difference between a Gnani and a renunciate is that the Gnani prevails in a state of saiyam (absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence), whereas a renunciate follows a set discipline. No one besides a Gnani can remain in saiyam.  ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Renunciation and saiyam are two different things. Renunciation is where one gives up all marital ties, parental ties, financial ties and material possessions. What is saiyam? When anger, pride, deceit, greed and attachment-abhorence are under control, then it is considered as saiyam. ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Worries

“In renunciation, egoism is present; [but] there is no egoism in saiyam (a state in which there is absence of anger, pride, deceit, greed and attachment-abhorence). ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Harmony in Marriage

“As long as one does not have Knowledge of the Self, his renunciation (tyaag) will give result. And after attaining the Knowledge of the Self, there is no renunciation; there is only a vow (vrat). A vow is that which prevails on its own.    ”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and The Disciple

“The penance and renunciation that one is told to do is actually under the authority of the non-Self (parsatta). So how can that happen? Penance-renunciation, it is all a resultant effect of the non-Self (parparinaam). It is neither an effect of the Self (Swaparinaam) nor is it independent (swadhin).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Renunciation is actually a result of the unfolding karma, whereas saiyam, a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence, is a result of understanding.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-1

“Renunciation & acquisition are both at the gross level, while being irritated and having love [for someone] are at the subtle level. The two cannot be equated with each other, so why are you doing that? These two have nothing to do with each other.  ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Who Am I?

“The renunciation that increases anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashay) cannot possibly be renunciation.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Whatever Has Happened is Justice

“The renunciation that increases anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashay) cannot possibly be renunciation”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the path to liberation. However, there is no liberation without Knowledge of the Self (Atma Gnan).”
― Dada Bhagwan