Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Love without attachment is light.

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.

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

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

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

To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce it? What is the point in renouncing it if you are not attached to it? Only attachment renounces. If you are really non-attached there is no question of any renunciation.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

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