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.
Loving Everyone
If you want to find someone
to love,
I recommend you start
loving everyone
immediately.
Love will find you if you are
being the love
that
you
are.
If you want to learn how
to love someone
with all your
heart,
I advise you to fall in love
with everyone
a little bit
more.
Loving everyone is the key
to loving
someone.
And if you want someone
to love you
more,
I urge you to get on with it,
and to start
loving yourself.
Someone has to do it.
It may as well be you.
Show us how it is done.
So that you make it easy
for us to love
you too.
Poem by Hafiz:
The subject tonight is Love
The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!
