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How to treat miserliness, nagging perfectionism, actor personality, and pride?

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Ambition is a disease that keeps you poor; drop the future, embrace the present, and let the joy of sharing dissolve your miserliness and pride.

— Osho
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Core Insight:
According to Osho, these traits are symptoms of one disease: ambition and living in the future. Ambition makes you poor, hoarding money, virtues, and images; you prepare to live and never live. The remedy is presence and sharing: drop the future, clean the inner junkyard, relax ideals, stop performing, and be simple and available now. By sharing and enjoying this moment, miserliness dissolves, pride softens, and authenticity flowers.
Stop saving yourself for later or trying to look perfect—share and be real right now, and the stinginess and pride fade away.
Why this matters practically
- Share something today (money, time, attention) to unlearn hoarding and feel vitality.
- Swap perfection goals for full presence; do one thing completely now.
- Catch yourself “performing for later,” return to breath and sincerity; simple authenticity loosens pride.
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