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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of allowing children to follow their own paths while providing guidance to keep them safe.
Wayne Dyer reflects on the parenting journey, expressing that while his children have their unique identities and choices, he has respected their individuality. He acknowledges the role of a parent not as a controller but as a supporter who ensures their safety while allowing them to explore their own 'inner music' or instincts.
In practice
During a parenting seminar, I shared Wayne Dyer's quote to highlight the value of nurturing children's independence.
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.
You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem.
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
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