“What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.” ThinkingNeedsKindDreamActionFormValuesKindnessViolenceTalentConflictAmbitionEverydayResolutionNurturingConflict ResolutionUsing Your Talents Author:Gloria Steinem
“With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.” WarSometimesStatesReasonLawDesireJudgingConflictAmbitionBoundsSovereignGrievance Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.” LightPoliticalMeditationImpossibleConflictEgoAmbitionAskingDisappearAbsenceCalmingEgo Trip Author:Rajneesh
“My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.” CountryActionBrotherConflictAmbitionMissionsDrivenMotiveCalculationsMediationUlterior Motive Author:Omar Bongo
“The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.” MeanWholeDependsConflictAmbitionCreatingMadnessConstantSomewhere ElseWherever You Are Author:Rajneesh