Thought For The Week

There are only three qualities you must teach your children.
Compassion, patience, and simplicity.
Some would say this is absurd.
They would teach instead, ambition, drive and consumption and say it is the way of success.

But if they learn patience, they see the world as it truly is.
If they learn simplicity, they see themselves as they truly are.
And, it they learn compassion, they heal themselves and the world.

Compassion, patience and simplicity cannot be taught until they are experienced.
And when we experience them, we lose the need to teach them.
We live them instead, and then our children learn.
-- William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching