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"In reality, proper education will never lead to that. It will give you knowledge, but it won't destroy your ability to wonder – that would be proper education. It will give you knowledge, but it will preserve your alertness so that no knowledge prevents you from continuing to discover. In reality, knowledge can make you wonder even more.
Albert Einstein's last words were: “I spent my life thinking about the mysteries of the universe. But now I know that the real mystery is the human heart.” The deeper I delved into existence, the deeper the mystery became. I am dying with a sense of wonder, I am dying in amazement.” But this is rare; it is the quality of a genius. A genius is someone who doesn't allow society to reduce him to a robot – that is my definition. Everyone is born a genius, but people very quickly start to compromise. And when they compromise, their talents disappear, their minds die. They continue to sell their souls for fleeting things, for useless things – useless in the ultimate sense; they may be useful here, but death comes, and they go with you.
If you can die like Albert Einstein – with a sense of mystery, filled with wonder, with a prayer in your heart, with poetry being born within you – then you have lived rightly and died rightly. And a person who lives rightly and dies rightly is a spiritual person. Albert Einstein has far more spirituality than the Vatican Pope and the Shankaracharyas – far more. Before his death, someone asked Einstein: “If you were to be reborn, and God asked you, I am sure you would want to be a great physicist and mathematician again.” He replied: “No, never! If I am given another opportunity, instead of being a physicist, I would prefer to be a plumber. I would like to live simply, anonymously, so that it would be easier to enjoy life, and no one would interfere. Fame, prestige, research – nothing will stand in my way, and then I will be able to penetrate existence more deeply.”
You say: “I don't have that feeling of wonder that I had as a child. Why?”
You must know too much."
Osho
Albert Einstein's last words were: “I spent my life thinking about the mysteries of the universe. But now I know that the real mystery is the human heart.” The deeper I delved into existence, the deeper the mystery became. I am dying with a sense of wonder, I am dying in amazement.” But this is rare; it is the quality of a genius. A genius is someone who doesn't allow society to reduce him to a robot – that is my definition. Everyone is born a genius, but people very quickly start to compromise. And when they compromise, their talents disappear, their minds die. They continue to sell their souls for fleeting things, for useless things – useless in the ultimate sense; they may be useful here, but death comes, and they go with you.
If you can die like Albert Einstein – with a sense of mystery, filled with wonder, with a prayer in your heart, with poetry being born within you – then you have lived rightly and died rightly. And a person who lives rightly and dies rightly is a spiritual person. Albert Einstein has far more spirituality than the Vatican Pope and the Shankaracharyas – far more. Before his death, someone asked Einstein: “If you were to be reborn, and God asked you, I am sure you would want to be a great physicist and mathematician again.” He replied: “No, never! If I am given another opportunity, instead of being a physicist, I would prefer to be a plumber. I would like to live simply, anonymously, so that it would be easier to enjoy life, and no one would interfere. Fame, prestige, research – nothing will stand in my way, and then I will be able to penetrate existence more deeply.”
You say: “I don't have that feeling of wonder that I had as a child. Why?”
You must know too much."
Osho