“Right now, the bane of the world is just that human beings are working with limited individualistic ambition.”

—  Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
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Context: Right now, the bane of the world is just that human beings are working with limited individualistic ambition. Instead of working with ambition, if people work for a deeper vision of life for themselves and for everything around them, there is no need to scale anything down. -Sadhguru

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