Maturity means the same as innocence, only with one difference: it is innocence reclaimed, it is innocence recaptured. To know the real beauty of your childhood, first you have to lose it; otherwise you will never know it. The fish never knows where the ocean is -- unless you pull the fish out of the ocean and throw it on the sand in the burning sun; then she knows where the ocean is. Now she longs for the ocean, she makes every effort to go back to the ocean, she jumps into the ocean. It is the same fish and yet not the same fish. It is the same ocean yet not the same ocean, because the fish has learned a new lesson. Now she is aware, now she knows, This is the ocean and this is my life. Without it I am no more -- I am part of it. Every child has to lose his innocence and regain it. Losing is only half of the process. Many have lost it, but very few have regained it. That is unfortunate, very unfortunate. Everybody loses it, but only once in a while does a Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Krishna, a Jesus regain it. The moment you become aware that to be a part of any society, any religion, any culture is to remain miserable, is to remain a prisoner, that very day you start dropping your chains. Maturity is coming. You are gaining your innocence again. ~ Osho
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:09:40 +0000
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