Renunciation is less difficult than people believe: It's all a matter of getting started. Once on has succeeded in dispensing with something one thought essential, one realizes that one can also do without something else, then without many other things.
Renunciation is, in fact, concealed affirmation in that, the man of renunciation, in throwing away much that would encumber his flight, including not a little that he esteems and likes, he strives for a higher world.
Renunciation is easy till one sees who picks up what the world that you've been renounced.
Renunciation is at wonrk in every choice, for every choice has its obverse, its renunciation. Thus, there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing.
Renunciation is the act of giving up your seat in a street-car to a pretty woman, and then purposely stepping on an old man's toes.
Renunciation is the only way to possess anything... what we do not renounce escapes from us.
Renunciation is not prompted by denial but assertion. The iconoclast is often more idolatrous than the idol worshiper.