T. S. Eliot Quotes

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

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

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.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

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.

We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them.

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 secret of happiness is renunciation.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Surrendering means non-desiring.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.