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To return home at even-tide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips...
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...Love one another, but make not a bond of love
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music...
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...Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts...
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...And he said:
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
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You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make'em like you
For life goes not backwards nor tarries with yesterday.
You're the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth...
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