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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It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from your heart. Meditation is simply the method to transform noise into harmony, the method to shift your consciousness from the head to the heart. The head is noisy, it is all noise - a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of meditation and self-awareness in shaping one's life and thoughts into a harmonious existence.
Rajneesh articulates the idea that true mastery over one's life involves artistic expression through meditation, allowing an individual to distill the chaos of thoughts and emotions into meaningful harmony. He contrasts the distracting noise of the intellect with the profound clarity of the heart, suggesting that meditation is a transformative practice that helps achieve a deeper understanding and connection to oneself.
Themes
MeditationArtHarmonyConsciousnessSelf-Awareness
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a meditation workshop to emphasize the role of mindfulness in life.
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