Is it necessary for the innocence of childhood and the idealism of adolescence to be shattered before finding real values in life?
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"To discover real values in life, the innocence of childhood and the idealism of adolescence must be shattered, for only then can we see beyond borrowed beliefs and find authenticity through awareness and experience."
According to Osho, yes—childhood “innocence” and adolescent idealism must be shattered. Both are coverings: childhood is layered with social conditioning, and youth’s ideals are a romantic, hormonal hallucination. When these illusions collapse, one can see without borrowed beliefs or biological fever and discover values born of awareness, experience, and meditation—authentic, individuated, and mature rather than utopian, secondhand, or compulsively driven.
Your kid-innocence and teen dreams are mostly borrowed and hormone-made; when they break, you can finally see clearly and choose what truly matters.
Why this matters practically
• Stop living by borrowed beliefs; live from your own seeing. • Loosen romantic/ideological compulsions for clearer choices in love, work, and life. • Turn to awareness and direct experience to form mature, authentic values.
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