Renunciation essentially means simplifying one’s mind, one’s words, and one’s activities, by letting go of what obstructs inner freedom. Constraint creates frustration; renunciation produces a real sense of joy.

First we conceive the "I" and grasp onto it.Then we conceive the "mine" and cling to the material world.Like water trapped on the water wheel, we spin in circles, powerless.I praise the compassion that embraces all beings.– Chandrakirti

The great master Padmasambhava said, Even if my view is higher than the sky, The attention I pay to my actions and their effects is finer than flour.

It’s said that the Buddha’s enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.