tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13739254.post599747022143398532..comments2023-10-06T21:45:00.141+05:30Comments on The Truth: Some excerpts from Kahlil Gibran's workSatyadarshinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15940255781534812866noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13739254.post-47762939380791516262007-06-26T17:06:00.000+05:302007-06-26T17:06:00.000+05:30Reading it again, and Jude its so beautiful...than...Reading it again, and Jude its so beautiful...thanks for sharing....<BR/><BR/>"Your children are not your children.<BR/><BR/>They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself"Satyadarshinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15940255781534812866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13739254.post-35673934297420015632007-06-26T16:51:00.000+05:302007-06-26T16:51:00.000+05:30Jude,Thanks boy! I have read this but there is alw...Jude,<BR/><BR/>Thanks boy! I have read this but there is always a freshness in reading again. Introspection that had not been done earlier.<BR/><BR/>Right now reading Paulo Coelho's "Pilgrimage", and then will head to Kahlil's book again :)<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/>SatyaSatyadarshinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15940255781534812866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13739254.post-31482361016463582832007-06-26T16:29:00.000+05:302007-06-26T16:29:00.000+05:30Hi again,I thought id save you the trouble, check ...Hi again,<BR/>I thought id save you the trouble, check this out..<BR/><BR/>And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of<BR/>Children."<BR/><BR/>And he said:<BR/><BR/>Your children are not your children.<BR/><BR/>They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.<BR/><BR/>They come through you but not from you,<BR/><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/><BR/>For they have their own thoughts.<BR/><BR/>You may house their bodies but not their souls,<BR/><BR/>For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,<BR/>not even in your dreams.<BR/><BR/>You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.<BR/><BR/>For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.<BR/><BR/>You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.<BR/><BR/>The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you<BR/>with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.<BR/><BR/>Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;<BR/><BR/>For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that<BR/>is stable.<BR/><BR/> -- Kahlil Gibran<BR/><BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>JudeJPKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588415230294426805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13739254.post-17498363071868126362007-06-26T16:26:00.000+05:302007-06-26T16:26:00.000+05:30Tere,Since you are married and have a kid, you sho...Tere,<BR/><BR/>Since you are married and have a kid, you should read "Your children are not your children..." by Gibran..<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>JudeJPKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588415230294426805noreply@blogger.com