🫶ON CHILDREN

Good morning, dear reader;

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, they do not belong 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 do not seek 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.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand
be for gladness.

A reflection...

Let us remember that we are all children too.

At some point, we had dreams, desires… some we fulfilled, others we abandoned to avoid disappointing our parents, to stay in the family, to not risk being “cast out” or losing the inheritance...

When we become parents, we often say: “I won’t do to my children what was done to me.”

Yet, many times, we repeat the same patterns our family tree has followed for generations. Sometimes, we repair them.

We all want our children to succeed, but they will need to learn how to fly, to fall back, or to move forward—on their own terms.

Let us accompany them without imposing, judging, forcing, manipulating, or threatening.

Let us advise without interfering.
Let us allow them to be themselves, from the very beginning.
Let us not try to live through them.

🫶 Receive a hug from the heart and don’t forget to share.

💛💛💛💛

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