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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If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a wound. And wherever you look, that wound immediately projects, and whatsoever you see becomes sexual.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Resisting or fighting against sexual desires can make them an overwhelming focus in life.
This quote by Rajneesh suggests that when one struggles against their sexual desires, it inadvertently elevates these desires to an all-encompassing state. Instead of letting them exist naturally, the act of fighting them makes sex a central theme in one's mind, creating an unhealthy obsession that colors all perceptions and experiences.
Themes
DesiresObsessionFocusResistancePerception
In practice
Example use cases
During a discussion on human sexuality at a conference, this quote can highlight the importance of acceptance over resistance.
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