Your children are not your children.
\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
\nThey come through you but not from you,
\nAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to you.<\/p>\n
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
\nFor they have their own thoughts.
\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls,
\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
\nwhich you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
\nYou may strive to be like them,
\nbut seek not to make them like you.
\nFor life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.<\/p>\n
You are the bows from which your children
\nas living arrows are sent forth.
\nThe archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
\nand he bends you with his might
\nthat his arrows may go swift and far.
\nLet your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
\nFor even as he loves the arrow that flies,
\nso he loves also the bow that is stable.
\nKahlil Gibran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading