Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.
Interpretation
Children are independent beings who come through their parents, representing life in its purest form.
Wayne Dyer's quote suggests that while parents play a significant role in bringing their children into the world, those children are not mere extensions of their parents; instead, they embody life itself with their own identities and desires. This statement encourages parents to recognize their children's individuality and support their unique paths rather than impose their own expectations upon them.
In practice
In a parenting seminar, to emphasize the importance of nurturing children's individuality.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.
We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
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