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What is the role of ideals in personal growth?

Real growth is not about chasing ideals of perfection, but about recognizing the divine essence in all and allowing your natural energies to blossom freely.

— Osho
According to Osho, ideals that make you ‘special’ or demand suppression split you from life; they are ego’s hierarchies that breed violence, madness, and self‑torment. Real growth is not chasing perfection but recognizing the same divine essence in all, honoring difference without superiority, and allowing your natural energies to flower into awareness rather than forcing them with moralistic shoulds.

Stop trying to be better than others or to crush your nature; be natural, respect all life, and let your inner truth grow by itself.

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