Marianna, Kahlil's Sister. Painting by 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
via parentalrights on youtube:
Overruled: Government Invasion of your Parental Rights (Official Movie)
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
"The Bill of Rights was designed trustfully to prohibit forever two favorite crimes of all known governments: the seizure of private property without adequate compensation and the invasion of the citizen's liberty without justifiable cause and due process." H.L. Mencken
quotes from "Quotationary" by Leonard Roy Frank; link to website.
parentalrights.org
Nancy Schaefer "The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services"
published as 'Parental Rights Under Attack' November 18, 2011 and January 17, 2012 with 'Overruled'
Kahlil Gibran via katzanddogz.com
