When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there. - Ram Dass

"You might think of renunciation in terms of some external act like a New Year's resolution, or leaving family and friends to go off to a cave. But renunciation is much more subtle than that — and much harder — and much much more continuing. On the spiritual journey, renunciation means non-attachment.

To become free of attachment means to break the link identifying you with your desires. The desires continue; they are part of the dance of nature. But a renunciate no longer thinks that he is his desires.

"What is the necessity of giving up the world altogether. It is enough to give up the attachment to it." — Ramakrishna"

Though Peter claimed not to be spiritual, he had found a peaceful place, as I had decades ago, in Quaker meeting

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.