The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Interpretation
Children should lead their own lives rather than conform to the expectations of their parents.
This quote emphasizes the importance of individuality and self-determination in a child's life. It suggests that parents often impose their own anxieties and expectations onto their children, which can hinder the child's personal growth and happiness. Instead, children should be encouraged to make their own choices and explore their own paths, free from the pressures of parental expectations.
In practice
This quote can be shared at parenting workshops to highlight the importance of supporting children's autonomy.
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.
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