“Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part, alluring as dreams. It takes place of what we think is real. - pg. 11-12”
Source: S. S. Proleterka
“The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken.”
Source: The History of Childhood: The Untold Story of Child Abuse
“There is a thing that happens with children: If no one is watching them, nothing is really happening to them. It is not some philosophical conundrum like the one about the tree falling in the forest and no one hearing it: that is a puzzler for college freshman. No. If you are very small, you actually understand that there is no point in jumping into the swimming pool unless they see you do it. The child crying, ‘‘Watch me, watch me,’’ is not begging for attention; he is pleading for existence itself.”
Source: Saying Goodbye: A Memoir for Two Fathers
“You may give them your love, but not your thoughts,
for they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of to-morrow,
which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams”
Source: The Prophet
“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”
“Any time you reject your parent, you are allowing the illusion to come between you and your parent.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Some mountains will be snowy, some stony and some thorny, but do not give up until you see God’s glory.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“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