Rajneesh Quotes

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

We learn many things from children, always.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.