“We put him in touch with his inner reality.”

And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Let us be different in our homes.

When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.

Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing

We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to

No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,

I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

No matter how many others are present, there is only One Being.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

That’s how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them ‘dumb’!!!