When life becomes difficult or painful, we feel that something has gone wrong, but pain and difficulty are all a part of life and cannot be avoided. Practice accepting all that comes your way and looking for the learning and healing that all things bring you.
If your ambitions are the result of curiosity and inner desire, rather than greed or lust and, as long as they do no harm to others, they should be exercised rather than suppressed. You may fulfill your ambitions and find out they no longer are important to you, then you are free to go on to something else.
If you want love and respect from people, treat everybody with love and respect. If you compete with no one, no one will compete with you. If you are not guided by your ego and emotions and let yourself be guided by wisdom instead, you will be able to respond to your needs and those of others.
We must not protest or revolt because something is wrong, but more importantly, if we want to establish a new system or better order, we must work diligently with people of like mind. The key is to seek out those wise and virtuous persons to work with you to establish the new way.
Quote: There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that. Rumi