#renunciation

[dabiconcordia]

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

[stoicmike]

Renunciation of something you didn’t really care for doesn’t count. -- Michael Lipsey

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

“You see, the trouble is, that although virtue is said to be its own reward, few people know how to acquire either the virtue or the reward; their idea is, simply to kill out their feelings – a process so unalluring that few wish to practice it – whereas they ought to transmute their feelings instead. Kill out a feeling, and there is nothing but tedium left; transmute it, and you transmute it into joy. Even the killing-out process is seldom a success, for the war is usually made on the gratification of the desire instead of the desire itself. A man has only overcome the drink habit when he no longer desires to drink, not when he merely refrains from drinking. Now, a lower desire can only be overcome by replacing it with a higher one, the higher desire being in reality productive of greater happiness than the lower.”

—The Initiate, Cyril Scott

[thepersonalwords]

Renunciation is not rejecting the family but accepting the whole world as family. Renunciation is not changing the name or dress. It is changing the attitude towards life. Renunciation is not removing the hairs form the head. It is eliminating the negative thoughts from the mind. Renunciation is not running away from responsibility, doership or fruits of action but it is focusing on the fruits and actions that will bring happiness to the whole world. Renunciation is the ultimate compassion and ultimate forgiveness.

Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

[wtlb]

[atruewolffan]

Cut.

[traveledlight]

Renunciation

Guilt burdens me—

a knowing evil

for desires I fall to my knees for.

I know I’ve done wrong,

yet I lost myself

in a place I belong to more.

The years will haunt me,

memories clenching my chest

in dark moments.

And yet now I am seen

in ways I needed,

pulled

toward the place

where I belong.

Forgiveness may never come—

nor do I deserve it—

but still,

I wish you the best

for the suffering

I have left behind.

[spockvarietyhour]

Find out how deep that hole was.