When Saints Outshine CEOs || Acharya Prashant

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00:00The saints were far more ambitious than the CEOs and the unicorns of today.

00:07They said we want nothing short of the ultimate.

00:10Just a billion dollar market cap tag won't satisfy us.

00:16That's too small a thing.

00:18We are shooting at something way higher than that.

00:21So that requires insight.

00:23That first of all requires that you know what is valuable and worthy in life.

00:27What is worth obtaining in the first place.

00:31To be ambitious is to realize true beauty in a way that it overpowers you.

00:37To be ambitious is to surrender to the truly lovely beautiful thing.

00:42And say now what else is there to life than to pursue that one thing.

00:48Nothing but that one thing and that spirituality.