From Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet come the words of
the song heard over the credits at the end of the film It’s Elementary:
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.
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