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Inspiration Room
Kahlil Gibran on Children
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.Kahlil Gibran On Talking
You talk when you cease to be at peace
with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your
heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion
and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may
indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.There are those among you who seek the talkative
through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked
selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without knowledge
or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves
do not understand.And there are those who have the truth within them,
but they tell it not in words.In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells
in rhythmic silence...