Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Renunciation is of the mind.

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

If a man does not argue with the thoughts that the enemy secretly sows in us, but by prayer to God uproots conversation with them, this is a sign that his mind has attained wisdom, and that he has found a short path.

Surrendering means non-desiring.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

Renunciation is in our blood.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

With renunciation life begins.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

I am someone without an ego.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

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.