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And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said,
Speak to us
of Children.
And he said:
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.
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 the bow that is
stable.
Kahlil
Gibran
1883-1931
'The Prophet'
Kahlil
Gibran was
born in Bsharri, Lebanon. His family immigrated to Boston in 1885. He returned
to Beirut to study in 1888, and then settled in New York City in 1912 where he
wrote essays and short stories in Arabic and English.
Often
revered as the Dante of the twentieth century, the immortal savant of Lebanon,
Kahlil Gibran, created verses and lyric prose expressing a deep and mystical
spirituality. His writing were also influenced by the Bible and Friedrich
Nietzsche.
Gibran's
major work, The
Prophet, is currently the most widely read book in the world.
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