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.
When everything happened to my family, my focus was just take care of my children. That led me to believe I might not ever be able to coach again, and I was cool with that.
By helping a woman, you help a family.
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.
My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'
I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.
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