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"Your children are not your children. They

are the sons and daughters of life's longing

for itself. They come through you, but notfrom you.

And though they are with you, yet they

belong not to you.

You may house their bodies, but not souls.

You may strive to be like them, but seek

not to make them like you.

You are the bows from which your children

as living arrows are sent forth.

Anakanakmu bukanlah anakanakmu.

!ereka adalah anakanak kehiduan

yang rindu akan dirinya sendiri.

!ereka terlahir melalui engkau, tai

bukan darimu. !eskiun mereka ada

bersamamu, tai mereka bukan

milikmu. #ada mereka engkau daat

memberikan cintamu, tai bukan

ikiranmukarena mereka memiliki

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ikiran mereka sendiri. $ngkau bisa

merumahkan tubuhtubuh, bukan %iwa

mereka. &arena %iwa%iwa itu tinggal dirumah hari esok, yang tak ernah

daat engkau kun%ungi meskiun

dalam mimi. &ahlil (ibran).