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Osho Quotes on Wonder

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The quest for approval dulls our curiosity and stifles our wonder; true humility lies in embracing the unknown.

Context: What is the paramount ambition that leads us to renounce our capacity for wonder? Read Original Discourse →

When the mind is filled with secondhand knowledge, it becomes a machine, losing the capacity for awe; true education nurtures a childlike openness that deepens wonder rather than diminishes it.

Context: What causes a lack of sense of wonder? Read Original Discourse →

The moment we prioritize certainty over curiosity, we begin to suffocate the wonder that is our birthright.

Context: What causes human beings to renounce their capacity for wonder? Read Original Discourse →

When you are filled with secondhand knowledge, you become a programmed computer—mathematically right, poetically dead; drop the borrowed knowing and reclaim your childlike wonder to rediscover the beauty of existence.

Context: What happens when I can't feel any wonder in existence? Read Original Discourse →

Wonder dies when we prioritize success and approval over the purity of our being; it is the willingness to embrace failure that keeps the door to the Divine open.

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