57 Quotes About Renunciation

Cultivate the art of renunciation.

Life was that — humiliation, renunciation.

It’s not even that you have to drop vain pursuits. God is not asking you to give up your sweeties, your favorite treats. It’s just that you start to lose interest in them.

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

Renunciation (tyaag) should be natural and spontaneous. [That which is to be renounced] should fall off on its own indeed.   

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)!

Renunciation is transforming all negative and positive energies of life into unconditional love for every being in the universe.

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.

RENUNCIATION is the rightful path of the soul to true freedom, & only then Peace can follow in the life.