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 is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As the ground is ready, immediately you see you are no more; the whole cosmos is. You have entered a greater womb, an eternal womb of tremendous peace and ecstasy.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Meditation is a process that requires effort, but ultimately transcends individual action, leading to a profound experience of peace.
The quote emphasizes that while effort is necessary to engage in meditation, the true essence of the practice lies in surrendering the individual self to a larger, universal experience. It suggests that upon attaining readiness through effort, one can dissolve the ego and connect with a deeper state of being that encompasses peace and ecstasy, indicating that meditation is less about control and more about allowing a natural, transformative experience to unfold.
Themes
MeditationPeaceSelfUniverseExperienceTranscendenceSurrender
In practice
Example use cases
During a wellness workshop, you might inspire participants by saying this quote to emphasize the essence of meditation.
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