0:000:00
On Children<br><br>Kahlil Gibran<br><br>Your children are not your children.<br>They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.<br>They come through you but not from you,<br>And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.<br><br>You may give them your love but not your thoughts, <br>For they have their own thoughts.<br>You may house their bodies but not their souls,<br>For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, <br>which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.<br>You may strive to be like them, <br>but seek not to make them like you.<br>For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.<br><br>You are the bows from which your children<br>as living arrows are sent forth.<br>The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, <br>and He bends you with His might <br>that His arrows may go swift and far.<br>Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;<br>For even as He loves the arrow that flies, <br>so He loves also the bow that is stable.<...