Some thoughts on the powerful
words of another.
Poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran's was
once ask to speak about Children.
He said:
"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through
you, but not from you. And though they are with you, yet they belong not to
you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their
own thoughts. You may house their bodies, but not their souls, for their souls
dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your
dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek
not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with
yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the
infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be
for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the
bow that is stable."
These words come from his book, "The Prophet."
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