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
As a parent you have to do some renunciation.
Renunciation is submission to time.
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.
I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.
No freedom without renunciation.
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they come to the Dharma, have led a pretty full worldly life with lots of sensual pleasures, money and lots of toys to play with. They have seen that the path of accumulation of worldly treasure does not lead to happiness or contentment. That's why they come to the Dharma.
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.
There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
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.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.
. . . giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.
Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.
Renunciation is in our blood.
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.
