POWER OVER OTHERS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- always destructive. In a better world anybody who is ambitious, who wants to be more important than others, ahead of others, should be treated psychologically.
ONLY HUMBLENESS, simplicity, naturalness -- no comparison with anybody... because everybody is unique, comparison is impossible.
HOW CAN YOU COMPARE a roseflower with a marigold? How can you say who is superior and who is inferior? Both have their beauty, and both have blossomed, danced in the sun, in the wind, in the rain... lived their life totally....
NOBODY IS SUPERIOR, NOBODY IS INFERIOR, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
It is perfectly good to be powerful as a mystic. It is ugly, disgusting, stinking to have even a slight desire for having power over others.
—OSHO—
From Bondage to Freedom
Ch #20: The power of the mystic
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