“Any time you yell at your child, you are allowing the illusion to come between you and your child.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You, my dear, are a child of God. Let you honor the creation that you are, equally to the beauty of a sunset or a newborn baby or a beautiful vista. You are glorious.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“They were complete little people talking to her from a mind she knew nothing about and would have to learn to apprehend; although this person had grown in her body, had torn it emerging, had once shared pulse and food and blood and joy and grief, it was now a separate person whose innards, mind and spirit and emotion, she would never completely comprehend. It was as if one weren't born suddenly, but progressively; as if each birth were also a death, each step they made in development moving them further away from her, from their oneness with her, and in time, far, far from her, they would merge with others, have children themselves, join and separate, until the final separation, which would also be a birth into a new mode.”
Source: The Women's Room
“Children are naturally drawn to self-sabotage.”
“Until a child that has issues with learning is diagnosed by "an expert" as having a learning disability, nothing is wrong with that child except that his motivation and feelings about the said "learning" is inadequate.”
“Children live in abundance.”
“The more negative you seem, while expressing your inability to provide what your children need, the more the chances that you would lose their respect and worse, break their spirit.”
“...had recommended pediatrics as the most honest specialization, because children become sick only when in fact they are sick, and they cannot communicate with the physician using conventional words but only with concrete symptoms of real disease. After a certain age, however, adults either had the symptoms without the diseases or, what was worse, serious diseases with the symptoms of minor ones.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“If your family has gotten used to having devices at the table, it can be difficult to break the cycle... Find a starting point that works for you and use it as an opportunity to reset the relationship between meals and devices.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“Being older deceives us into thinking that we are experts at being the ages we used to be.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms