Original artwork, not a still
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says children are not possessions: they arise through parents as expressions of life's own yearning to continue. Parents are a channel, not an origin or owner. Even while children live alongside them, the passage insists they belong to themselves.
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