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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It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Happiness cannot be actively sought or imposed; it must come naturally and cannot be mandated by laws or power.
This quote by Rajneesh expresses the idea that true happiness is not something one can chase after or demand through external means. Instead, it suggests that happiness is a state that arises when the conditions are right, and cannot be enforced by courts or governments, highlighting the inherent nature of happiness as something that is personal and internal rather than dictated by external pressures.
Themes
HappinessInternalPursuitNatureExternalFreedom
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about finding inner peace.
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