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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The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Positive thinking may suppress negativity but does not lead to true transformation or awareness.
In this quote, Rajneesh emphasizes that merely adopting a technique of positive thinking does not result in genuine personal growth or self-awareness. Instead, it often involves suppressing negative traits rather than addressing them authentically, suggesting that true awareness comes from acknowledging all aspects of ourselves without judgment or forced positivity.
Themes
Positive ThinkingAwarenessTransformationPersonalityChoice
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational talk about personal growth.
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