Life is an ever-progressing reality. This is the firm conviction of ambition.
Ambition is an attempt at self-expression and self-extension. When it is based on the ego’s enlargement, we call it self-aggrandisement. When it is based on the soul’s illumination, it ceases to be ambition and becomes a divine mission.
If you cast aside your ambition while still in the unaspiring life, lo, you become a brainless sheep.
Embrace ambition in your aspiring life; lo, you become the condemned convict. You can never come out of the finite.
In your outer life, ambition is the highest height. In your inner life, ambition is the darkest night.
In your outer life, the closer you come towards the land of fulfilling ambition, the mightier is your hopeful security. In your inner life, the farther away you go from the shore of ambition, the greater is the strength of God’s protection for you.
Before you become an aspirant, ambition is your highest aim. After you become an aspirant, ambition is not only a low aim, but a serious fall.
Be sure, ambition is not aspiration. Ambition wants to command the world. Aspiration cries to serve the Creator in His creation.
Ambition is a human passion, never to be satisfied. Aspiration is a divine glorification, ever to be satisfied.
Ambition is the end of human realisation. Aspiration is the beginning of divine realisation.
Ambition is the chosen child of man. Aspiration is the chosen child of God.From:Sri Chinmoy,Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974, Agni Press, 1975
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