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.
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- My Favourite Faded Fantasy
- BBC Four Sessions
- 9
- The Beekeeper
- O
- Miscellaneous
- B-Sides
- The Story So Far.
- Non-Album Releases
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Volume 10: 2008-2009
- Help: A Day In The Life
- Live At Fingerprints: Warts And All
- The Prophet (Music from the Motion Picture)
- Bonnaroo 2004
- 3FM Presents Serious Music 2007
- Compilation
- Canciones de cuna
- Cannon Ball
- Live from the Union Chapel
- Rootless Tree (Live On KCRW)