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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Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Meditation is an integral part of everyday life, not something isolated from it.
This quote emphasizes that meditation is not just a practice performed in solitude but an essential aspect of living consciously and fully engaged with the present. By integrating meditation into all activities—walking, working, or sitting—it transforms one’s entire experience and awareness, allowing it to become a natural state of being rather than a separate task.
Themes
MeditationAwarenessSilenceLifeMindfulness
In practice
Example use cases
During a yoga class, the instructor may share this quote to highlight the importance of integrating mindfulness into daily actions.
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