"Speak to us of Children...

And he said:

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.













You may give them your love, but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.




















You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward
nor tarries with yesterday .."

~Kahlil Gibran

Without experiencing something so painful, I would have never examined it so intently...

"Being that my entire family is Atheist, that's how I was raised...

When I got old enough to comprehend exactly what that meant, I didn't like it. I spent a lot of time, researching many religions, without the support of my family.

When I first got to college, I met the person I wanted to marry. He was from a different Country, a different background, and a STRONG religious belief system... but we were in love. Multiple heartbreaks and three years later, I watched him have an arranged marriage with someone else... all because of beliefs.

This was the first time in my life where I felt that I was discriminated against, and it was because of a belief system. I was raised to always be accepting of anyone who surrounded me, regardless of whatever factors made that person who they were. To feel this way, was completely foreign to me.

I'm still affected by this, but I also believe that I was destined to meet him to have a strong understanding of my beliefs, who I am and what I represent. I think that this is why I have such an open mind about belief in general.



I know that what I put out into the world will come back to me in the same way.




I understand that my specific actions, good or bad, impact all things around me. I feel that it was imperative for me to love him to even begin to comprehend my beliefs; that without experiencing something so painful, I would have never examined it so intently.
I would like to think that I represent those who have a profound amount of spirituality and faith in their everyday life; not necessarily one belief, but the culmination of many.