Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, November 21, 2003

Quote O' the Friday

"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 they belong
not to you,
You may give them 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."

--Kahlil Gibran
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