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'Saying is one thing. Doing is another. Many talk like the sea but live their lives in stagnant marshes'

Posted By: Earl Brown
Wednesday, October 31st 2012 at 4:13PM
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I love Mr. Gibran's piece 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

Stay strong Dear Brother and Sister!
Thursday, November 1st 2012 at 11:04AM
Siebra Muhammad

Thank you ladies. Your comments and sharing of your thoughts are uplifting.
Thursday, November 1st 2012 at 1:32PM
Earl Brown

Thank you!
Tuesday, November 6th 2012 at 12:21PM
Siebra Muhammad

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