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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Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Awareness and consciousness are the keys to understanding the transient nature of life.
In this quote, Rajneesh emphasizes the importance of becoming aware and fully present in life, recognizing that all things are in constant change. He suggests that while life is impermanent, our consciousness remains unchanged and eternal, making it essential to focus on this inner awareness as it leads to true freedom and fulfillment. Missing this insight equates to missing the essence of life itself.
Themes
AwarenessConsciousnessLifeFreedomFlux
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about finding inner peace.
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