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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There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if you know how to allow love - if you know how to ALLOW, then you know the art of life. In the allowing, in the let-go, in the surrender, is the art of life. How not to be and to let God be - that is the only art of life.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The art of life stems from the ability to allow experiences and emotions to flow freely.
In this quote, Rajneesh emphasizes that life is not about control but rather about acceptance and surrender. By allowing poetry, dance, and love to unfold naturally, one engages in the true art of living, which is about embracing experiences and letting go of the need to impose one's will, thus allowing a deeper connection with life and the divine.
Themes
ArtLifeAllowSurrenderPoetryDanceLove
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about embracing changes in life.
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