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.
Interpretation
Ambition can hinder the ability to truly love, as it often prioritizes personal success over relationships with others.
In this quote, Rajneesh discusses the inherent conflict between ambition and love. He suggests that when we instill ambition in children, it fosters a mindset focused on competition and using others to achieve personal goals, ultimately detracting from the capacity for genuine love and connection. This perspective invites reflection on the potential consequences of valuing ambition too highly in our lives, suggesting that it may come at the expense of meaningful relationships.
In practice
In a motivational speech about prioritizing relationships over career goals.
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Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.
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Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
Iβll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.
I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
β¦So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.
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