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 become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Being sensitive to beauty signifies the growth of love, replacing negative emotions with positive energy.
Rajneesh emphasizes that an increased sensitivity to beauty and poetry reflects a blossoming of love within oneself. This transformation highlights how negative emotions like fear, anger, and hate can be replaced by positive attributes such as love, compassion, and creativity, likening this inner change to the alchemical process of turning base metals into gold, symbolizing the elevation of one's spirit and experience.
Themes
SensitivityBeautyLoveCompassionTransformation
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about personal growth, one could quote this to inspire audiences to embrace love and compassion.
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