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.
I am better than my reputation
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.
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I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
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