your children

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.

You may strive to be like them, 

but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which 

your children

as living arrows 

are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark 

upon the path of the infinite, 

and He bends you with His might 

that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand 

be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, 

so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Khalil Gibran The Prophet

'heart on earth' savasana time

listening to yoga stories

beautiful session

with the people of tomorrow
honored by their awareness
and full attention
may we learn from them
now and ever

thanks to helen doron's team 
for concocting the magic potion
that made it happen

<3

grateful 

for being at the heart 

of human transformation 

and evolution. 

as martin viniecki puts it:

'evolution does not advance gradually, but in leaps- 

once a pattern of organization is no longer functional, 

living systems undergo a period of turbulence 

until they suddenly leap into a more complex pattern of organization. 

this is the process we are undergoing as a species right now, 

the process we are participating in and co-creating. 

the clearer our vision, 

the more we can help birth the future we want. 

we cannot leave this up to some president, institution or guru; 

nobody else will do it for us. 

now is the moment 

to start building 

a new humane culture 

and it begins by seeing its actual possibility.'

a new humane culture,

not simply human.

let's start now,

let's care for and foster childhood.

for everybody's sake,

because

as saint-éxupery once said:

 'all grown-ups were once children-- although few of them remember it.'