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Children Quotes by Rajneesh

64 Children quotes by Rajneesh

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A quote says that a truly wise person never loses the child’s wonder, like watching birds with fresh eyes. Another line claims that a sannyasin should give children complete freedom, never forcing ideas on them. A third thought warns that pushing ambition in children can turn love into struggle, making life harder.

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Seriousness is a disease.

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

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Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

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Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are…

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We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition…

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Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is…

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Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the…

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Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality...…

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That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known…

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never.…

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Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom…

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Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up…

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The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the…

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The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they…

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Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every…

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Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said,…

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Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a…

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The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness…

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Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive…

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Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What…

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One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise.…

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A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the…

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If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You…

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Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare…

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Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become.…

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The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him…

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The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the…

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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,…

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But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death.…

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Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured…

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Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again,…

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Every child is born with tremendous love for himself. It is the society that destroys that love, it is the religion that…

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Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt…

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Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love…

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First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the…

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When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer…

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In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East -…

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Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,…

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Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no…

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Meditation for me is not a children's play, it is a deep transformation. How to know this transformation? It is being reflected…

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Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage…

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension…

The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in…

Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring…

To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…

So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and…

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.