On Children
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On Children
I think this is one of the key things in parenting, and the difficulty of raising children in a very, very fast-moving culture: that, again, it’s the difficulty of creating a space where children can actually unfold and where they can be truly accompanied in their journey
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Your children and your children’s children will thank you. CHAPTER TEN Out of the Mouths of Babes Ask the young.
Robin Berman • Permission to Parent
Children are made of awe. We have much to learn from them, but we seldom aim to. When we encounter the freedom of a child, we can choose to participate in their liberation or we can grow to resent the freedom in them.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Parents with children are like prayer leaders with kohanim. Our children need to be filled with love so that they in turn can love others. If they are not loved, they enter the world as empty vessels, devoid of the one thing that matters most: the capacity to love others.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
You are paralyzed by joy—yes, of course—and something else. A peripheral pain. You fear that you were destined to mess this thing up, this mothering thing. That no matter how many books you read on conscious child-rearing or how diligently you practice mindfulness, you are bound to get lost in the woods of parenting, dragging your poor kid behind y
... See moreMirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Estelle was thinking about another author now, one who almost a hundred years ago wrote that your children aren’t your children, they’re the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.