When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the difference between simply imparting knowledge to children and teaching them how to think for themselves.
Neale Donald Walsch's quote highlights the importance of nurturing wisdom in children rather than merely providing them with knowledge. Knowledge often involves rote learning or the transmission of facts, whereas wisdom empowers children to discern their own truths and make informed decisions based on their experiences and understanding. This approach fosters critical thinking and personal development, allowing children to grow into thoughtful individuals who can navigate the complexities of life.
In practice
In a parenting seminar discussing the importance of independent thinking.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.
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