"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself."
- Kahlil Gibran
A reflection
It is only human to be devoted and attached to one's family. To desire a good relationship with one's own children is probably the most genuine desire of any parent. To lose the connection, whether by death or by life, causes suffering.
To come to peace with this loss is possible..; to lay the suffering to rest is also possible. But it is only possible when to the profoundest depths is understood that love is not an exclusive blessing for one's own loved ones, but that love abounds and permeates everything. Then the heart calms down and the surrender to what is simply follows.
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Art: Les enfants de Bretagne by Emil Vernon
