Roger's Rant…

Are you responsible for who you are? As I do my daily reading this morning, I come across this quote by Dahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer:

“Our children come through us, but not from us”

In fact, I was reading motivational speaker Les Brown’s “Live Your Dreams” where he was describing how he hated his natural parents who abandoned him as a baby. He had no idea who they were and not even a picture to look at.

Les was holding a grudge against his natural parents and said it was a lot of work!

Till…

… he contemplated Gibran’s quote above and finally dropped the baggage.

Kahlil Gibran said that our parents bring us into the world, but in the end, we are responsible for what we become. Parents, he said, are like the archer’s bow and their children the arrows.

A picture I took while visiting the Kennedy Space Center, USA in June 2010

Do you dare to dream *BIG* DREAMS?

Today, I heard Jack Canfield, cocreator of the phenomenal ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ series on my car stereo as he narrated ‘The Success Principles
‘:

“Always dream big dreams.

“Big dreams attract big people.

“It doesn’t take any more energy to to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.”

How true is that?

AND

What has BIG DREAMS got to do with this SPECIAL DAY? Read on…

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