# Rabindranath Tagore: on the spirit of renunciation We see everywhere in the history that the spirit of renunciation is the deepest reality of the human soul. When the soul says of anything, "I do not want it, for I am above it," it gives utterance to the highest truth that is within. an [extract](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sadhana:_The_Realisation_of_Life#The_Realization_of_the_Infinite) from the essay _the Realization of the Infinite_, published in **Sadhana: the Realization of Life** (1913) ---- [Back to the Meditations collection](meditations)