Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There is no end to renunciation.

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.

If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it.

Surrendering means non-desiring.

Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

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.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

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

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.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

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

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.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Renunciation is in our blood.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

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

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.