March 14, 2010

孩子

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"


孩子不是你的,
他們是『生命』對自身的渴慕。
孩子經你而生非自你而來,
與你為伴卻從不屬於你。

你可以給孩子愛而非思想,
他們自有見解。
你可以庇護孩子的身體,但不可以禁錮他們的心靈,
因為孩子的心靈居所,是你即使在夢中也無法企及的明日之屋
奮力向孩子看齊,而不要設法讓他們像你,
因為生命既不走回頭路,也不滯留往昔。

父母是弓,而孩子是充滿生命力的箭,藉由你的力量射向前方。
弓箭手知道無垠路徑上的目標,
祂將盡其所能將你拉開,使祂的箭射得既快且遠,
欣喜的順服它的旨意吧!
因為正如祂愛那飛翔的箭,祂也愛那堅定的弓。

--紀伯倫《孩子》

2 comments:

Una said...

you can fly:)

Li-Hsuan said...

Thanks with love :)