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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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of personal freedom and the necessity of letting go of established beliefs and dogmas.
In this quote, Rajneesh speaks to the transformative journey of becoming a sannyasin, where one is initiated into a state of freedom devoid of the constraints imposed by traditional ideologies and dogmas. The essence of this message is about breaking free from societal and personal beliefs that limit one's true self, advocating for a path of self-discovery and liberation rather than simply adopting a new set of beliefs.
Themes
FreedomIdeologiesLiberationSelf-DiscoveryPhilosophy
In practice
Example use cases
A motivational speaker discussing the importance of breaking free from limiting beliefs.
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