We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
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Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Awareness of one's thoughts leads to profound spiritual experiences beyond the mind.
This quote by Rajneesh emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and mindfulness as essential tools for personal transformation. He suggests that by transcending the limitations of the mind through awareness, one can access a state of spiritual richness, freedom, and joy that is far beyond ordinary mental experiences, often described as nirvana or enlightenment.
Themes
AwarenessMindNirvanaSpiritualityFreedom
In practice
Example use cases
During a meditation workshop, this quote can be used to highlight the importance of self-awareness.
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