Belly Watch: November 2013

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

A Discussion on Loving our Children and Marriage

Read this quote about children, it's so powerful. I just got the wind knocked out of me reading it...

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.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams

Jasmin

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17 mins

awww, that is sweet

16 mins

Wow

Very

Jasmin

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16 mins

it is painful knowing your children are going to make most of the same mistakes we all did, and not being able to stop it

that is what I find most painful about being a father

16 mins

Awww, yeah

I don't want them to experience hurt. They will be hurt. They will be let down; by friends, lovers, hell,...by the world. I wish I could stop that for them. But I guess it is life

Jasmin

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14 mins

because you know of them, they are part of you, they think and feel like you more than anyone else you know, but they are just a bit off, and will experience things in much the same way but not exactly the same way

14 mins

Ana is like you. She is sensitive. I see it.

Jasmin

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14 mins

and you know that if you could just pass them the knowledge you have gained, the pains and happinesses, that knowledge you can't learn in books or in a documentary, it would make it so much easier

13 mins

yeah, but they will reject it from us

That knoweldge only comes from living and experiences and maturity

My parents said so manhy things to me and I scoffed and rolled my eyes

Jasmin

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12 mins

yep

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Dude, I love this guy

The guy who wrote about children also wrote my favorite piece on marrage

Jasmin

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3 mins

what is that one

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Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
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.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Jasmin

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2 mins

wow, that's cool