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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Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Meditation can lead to a state of deep awareness that transcends ordinary consciousness.
This quote by Rajneesh emphasizes the transformative power of meditation, suggesting that through deep reflection and practice, one can achieve a profound state of being. The imagery of a drop falling into the ocean symbolizes the idea of individual consciousness merging with the universal consciousness, indicating a journey toward enlightenment and unity.
Themes
MeditationAwarenessTransformationConsciousnessEnlightenment
In practice
Example use cases
In a yoga class when discussing the benefits of meditation.
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