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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Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is unnecessary in the inner world. You remove all that clutter, all the rubbish you are full of. Meditation means emptying yourself of all that the society has put inside you so that you can have a clean, clear vision, so that you can have a mirror-like quality.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Meditation helps clear the mind of societal clutter, leading to a more authentic and clear inner self.
In this quote, Rajneesh emphasizes the transformative power of meditation, suggesting that it allows individuals to cleanse their minds of unnecessary thoughts and societal influences. By removing the 'dust' and 'clutter' that accumulate in our inner worlds, meditation paves the way for a clearer, more authentic understanding of oneself, akin to achieving a mirror-like quality in one's perception of reality.
Themes
MeditationInner PeaceSelf-DiscoveryClarityMindfulness
In practice
Example use cases
During a wellness retreat, a speaker might use this quote to highlight the benefits of meditation.
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