Volume 2 : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light
Volume 2 includes multiple books : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light.
No, it is not a crime; the desire to be loved and admired is no crime; it is natural and is indeed the parent generating the motive force for ambition which also is no crime, but is natural for those in whom there is the fire, the will of the spirit within to express itself and dominate wherever possible.
But then, know also that failure like success is no crime, but natural. In brief the key is here. There is a necessity to grow enough and go ahead in order to be above and command the conditions that determine the success and failure in a particular sphere. Ambition or desire to be loved and admired are petty, and at times powerful stimulants that speed up the growth. But they are not indispensable in all cases. They are useful devices.
Again, also note that desire to be loved or admired is not the same as being lovable or admirable. One can be or become lovable or admirable not from desire but desert to be loved and admired.
Desire is not the same as desert, thought the former may initiate the strivings for the latter.
11 December 1936
The delusion that one is loved is preferable to the canker of hatred that may develop eating into the vitals of its entertainer.
6 August 1936
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