Damien Rice - On Children (from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet)

A video tribute to go with this beautiful song.

Video editing - Jean Tinder.

[Alipore]

The quote from the book that I seem to remember effortlessly for decades… so thought provoking and profound.

[AnatolySmolyansky]

Khalil would be pround.
May his spirit go forth.

[hamitersoy]

Childhood is a patched trousers, my memories remain

[genemanly]

This song by Damien Rice telling me what Kahlil Gibran's thoughts of raising children should be, ring prophetically for me. Unfortunately, as I raised my children, I never thought of reading or listening to literature, or poetry such as this. But now I have read and listened to Kahlil Gibran's poetry and listen to Damien Rice.

[christineweber]

When I had my children wrongfully taken from me, I gained comfort from these beautifully written words and another perspective. To hear it sung by Damien Rice, though, gives me assurance that eventually I will find the blessing. But for now all I feel is disguised as unrelenting nightmares of heartache. And at least you'll awaken from the realm of sleep to find your peace and place in the now. In this nightmare, in and out of consciousness, I fight to stay awake and to awaken others.

[sparkyind]

Pouring over what could have been, what is and what will be ❤! Knowing this doesn’t lessen the longing

[timetraveler-zzln]

I finally found it. I went to a bluegrass folk gospel concert when I was young at Yale university and had this song stuck in my head ever since! Thank you very much for posting.

[gwenmolfetas]

Beautiful Truth!! Love how Damien made KG words come to Life in our Souls....Thank You!!

[deepashekar]

So Enlightening one. Thanks for this lovely gift. Namaste

[trw]

Very beautiful video to wise and beautiful words~~~

[gooberslap]

I'm a child and i don't understand this but i think it sounds great

[mishadekoning]

ohhh such a Creation, wonderful, thank You.

[KxNOxUTA]

Ah, I love you! You've already put it online. I didn't even have to ask! I love that effect of our Shaumbra gatherings. We build up a time-space vibrant with such high energies that things go fast, smoothely and effortlessly as we're used for it to be, from within our I AM-ness. <3

[elenaellis]

i’m sure Khalil Gibran would had loved the poem he wrote “on children” in your beautiful voice🙏🤍🙏

[muzaffercaginipekoglu]

Timeless…Please also watch the cartoon movie, read the book…Khalil Gibran, The Prophet…🧿☯️🍀

[crimsoncircleunofficial]

PARENTHOOD

A few parents are needed to change the whole world. But it is difficult – you follow the pattern that your parents have forced on you. This is the problem that we can't see at all: You cannot tolerate your parents, but you are following the same pattern as they did.

The world will be totally different if parents can become a little more understanding. They are not, and nobody can tell them anything because they are so loving--that's the trouble. Behind love, so much that is not love goes on hiding. Love becomes a shelter for many things that are not love at all.

Your parents might have been very loving and must have done whatever they could. They must have been thinking that they were creating a happy life for you. But nobody can make anybody happy, nobody.

So allow your children to grow in freedom. Of course it is risky, but what can be done? Life is a risk, but every growth is possible in danger and risk. Don't protect them too much or they will become hothouse plants-almost useless. Let them be wild. Let them struggle in life, let them grow on their own, and they will always be grateful to you. And you will always be happy, because later on you will see an aliveness in them.

osho

CARBON COPIES, A SOCIETY OF (SLAVISH) IMITATORS

Parents have carried the idea down through the ages that children belong to them and have to be just carbon copies of them. A carbon copy is not a beautiful thing, and existence does not believe in carbon copies, it rejoices in originality.

You have to help them grow beyond you. You have to help them not to imitate you. That is really the duty of the parents - to help the children not to fall into imitation. Children are imitative, and naturally, whom are they going to imitate? The parents are the closest people. Up to now parents have enjoyed it very much, that their children are just like them. The father feels proud because his son is just like him. Then one life is wasted; then his son is not needed, he was enough.

Because of this wrong conception of pride in children imitating you, we have created a society of imitators.

osho

[GLHouse]

where was this, it is awesome and beautiful

[proenglishtutors]

What is this BS? "Your children are not your children?" Tell that to mothers. What he really means to say is "Your children are not your children AFTER YOU'VE RAISED THEM." But by that time, if you raised them properly, they will be making sound decisions.