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＜紀伯倫 先知＞ 論孩子

你的孩子不是你的

他們是生命本身充滿渴望的兒女

他們是經由你來到這個世界 但

他們不屬於你



你可以給他們你的愛 但不是你的思想

因為他們有自己的思想

他們的身體住在你的屋裡 但

他們的靈魂並不

因為 他們的靈魂居住在明日之屋

甚至 在夢中你也無法前去探訪



你可以盡力讓自己變得像他們 但是

不要使他們像你 因為

生命不會倒流 也不會在昨日佇足



你是弓 經由你

射出子女的生命之箭

神箭手瞄向無窮遠的標的 以祂的神力將你拉彎

把箭射得又快又遠



任那神箭手將你彎滿

那是一種真正的喜悅 因為

一如祂喜愛飛快的箭

祂也同樣喜愛沉穩的弓

〈齊若蘭譯〉

And a woman who held a baby against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. 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.
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 arrows that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

-- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"

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