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Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
We cannot avoid responsibility -- each of us must say, "If children fail, it is MY finger those adoring eyes followed."
Children aren`t happy without something to ignore, and that`s what parents were created for.
The meaning and significance you choose ARE your reality -- choose a better meaning and significance and you choose a better reality -- and not just for yourself, also for people around you -- especially for children in your care.
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently
Children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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The three glues that hold humankind together are the courage of women, the compassion of men and the laughter of children.
Learning how to become emotionally literate is one of the best investments that human beings can make for themselves, their children, and the future.
You can't have real learning with a child unless they are playing. Real playing is how real learning takes place. You can have conditioning and a Pavlovian conditioning of his dogs, or behaviors modifications through other means which we look on as very serious, and we generally call learning, but it's not learning. It's conditioning. Real learning takes place by what Maria Montesorri would call the absorbent mind of the child. Simply absorbing their universe, absorbing it, becoming it, and they do this through play. Play can be the most serious undertaking of a child's life. It is the most serious undertaking. They are completely entrained in play. Mind, the three parts of the mind; thought, feeling, action, the body, every aspect of the child's self entrained solely focuses totally on the activity of absorbing their world. Absorbing their environment. It is the most serious active to their life because they're literally building their construction of knowledge of the world, of themselves, of the relationship between the two and laying down all the foundations for the later forms of intelligence.
"Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."
Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.
Ignorance can be bliss--without it, far fewer children would be born!
BE what you wish to see reflected in the world.
Love is made by being love. Peace is found only in being peace.
See others as children. See how our collective being impacts them.
What do you create? Love, Compassion, and Peace? Or Fear, War, and Hate?
Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!
Imagine being invited to a banquet where you bring your own meal-
and you brought a steak ,baked potatoes and asparagus with Boston cream pie for desert.
Joining you at that table were a sampling of the human diversity from your community.
Across from you at this table was a mother with children who had nothing to bring-
how much would you enjoy your meal without sharing it?
Marianne Goldweber
Spiritualist-Minister
Every child is a feather on the white wing of the Universe.
When we were children, clouds became animals.
Now that we are adults, the vast, blue sky is a metaphor
for the infinite, upward potential of the human spirit.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Live not for your tomorrow but for the tomorrow of your children. ~ Evangeline Trevino
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego--but not until you suffer consciously.
Humanity is destined to go beyond suffering, but not in the way the ego thinks. One of the ego's many erroneous assumptions, one of its many deluded thoughts is "I should not have to suffer." Sometimes the thought gets transferred to someone close to you: "My child should not have to suffer." That thought itself lies at the root of suffering. Suffeirng has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. The man on the cross is an archetypal image. He is every man and every woman. As long as you resist suffering, it is a slow process because the resistance creates more ego to burn up. When you accept suffering, however, there is an acceleration of that process which is brought about by the fct that you suffer consciously. You can accept suffering for yourself, or you can accept it for someone else, such as your child or parent. In the midst of conscious suffering there is already the transmutation. The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.
...a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.
"A CIGARETTE IN THE HANDS OF A HOLLYWOOD STAR ON SCREEN IS A GUN AIMED AT A 12- OR 14-YEAR OLD"
“You want to raise your child in such a way that you don’t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.”
L. RON HUBBARD
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up...
