There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
Interpretation
Having children offers a unique experience of deep love and responsibility.
This quote emphasizes the profound and transformative experience of parenthood, suggesting that the responsibilities and emotional bonds formed when raising children provide a deeper understanding of love. It conveys the idea that through parenting, individuals learn to care for another human being while also discovering the depths of their own capacity for love and connection.
In practice
During a parenting workshop, this quote can be shared to underscore the joys and challenges of raising children.
People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.
I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.
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