Children
You belong to the past; your days are over. Parents cannot conceive the future – and the children are not going to live in the past, so don’t burden them with your dead scriptures. They will have their own scriptures, they will have their own saints. They will have their own Buddhas, they will have their own Christs. Why should they be burdened with the past? They have an open future.
And if you love your children, you should keep your hands off. Help them to be strong, help them to be able to go on the search for the unknown but don’t give them your ideas; they are absolutely useless to them. Because of them, they will miss their own destiny. You are distracting them.
Just watch small children and see the clarity of their vision.
-Osho, “The Messiah, Vol 1, #9“