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The Truth About the Devastating Pursuit of Power
Osho,
Your vision is so beautiful, and most of all, so simple. But when I think about what man has to cleanse himself of, it seems to get complicated. I think the thing hardest for man to drop, for your vision ever to be, is his so-called power — worldly and spiritual. To me, such people would rather see their world blow up than to give up their precious power. Is this so?
“It is so. People are so unconscious that they can do anything to keep their power, their respectability — even if it means blowing up the whole world. They can risk anything to save their ego.
“And these are the people who naturally reach to the positions of power, because they are the only seekers of power.
“No creative, intelligent person seeks power. No intelligent person is interested in dominating others. His first interest is to know himself.
“That power can be worldly, political; it can be of money, it can be of holding spiritual domination over millions of people, but the basic urge is to dominate more and more people.
“This urge arises because you don’t know yourself, and you don’t want to know that you don’t know…
