Divine Utterances:
Children




This page includes a small selection from the many Divine Utterances (which Adi Da sometimes humorously called "Holy Mutterances") that Adi Da spoke or wrote from 1972 to 2008, on the topic of Children. For more on Adi Da's Divine Utterances, click here.


Related words and topics:
  • Childraising
  • Wisdom for Children


    Children should enjoy a feeling, breathing relationship with the Mystery, the Divine Reality, and Truth. They must learn to recognize the Happiness that is felt in relationship to the Mystery.

    Look at the Sunlight on the Water

    tags:   Children,   Happiness,   Mystery/Divine Ignorance



    Stand up, and feel to yourself: "Breathe in the good stuff — Breathe out the bad stuff."

    What, Where, When, How, Why and Who to Remember to be Happy

    tags:   Children



    Children also suffer, but they do show this Life-sign of a spontaneous commitment to the Motive of Ecstasy Itself, of True Joy. This is why their company is pleasing — because they, without all the baggage of adults (in their suffering at any rate), rather typically show the sign of this commitment that is fundamental to being human, to being born.

    August, 1987

    tags:   Children,   Happiness



    A very strange thing that only parents know is that you do not merely love your children. You actually fall in love with them.

    Love, Wisdom, and Happiness in the First Three Stages of Life

    tags:   Children,   Love



    You can’t teach anyone anything without love, and without being happy with them.

    Discipline is an Act of Love

    tags:   Children,   Right Life / Discipline






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