The ones with the smiling hearts are the Hope of the world. The ones with
the open minds are the New Teachers. The ones with the Laughing Eyes and
spirits free are the innocents. Smiling hearts. Open minds. Laughing eyes.
Spirits free.
The Childeren.
-Mary Summer Rain
Here are some good links to one of my favorite authors Mary Summer Rain. My handle came from one of her books Daybreak.
I am still looking around to see what I can find on Mary Summer Rain. It seems that some of my links have become out dated. So please check back here to see the new ones that I have found.
This is a wonderful quote from the Prophet Kahlil Gibran. Check out this wonderful site dedicated to his writing.
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 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.