poohyelles

“It made the kids at camp much more enthusiastic and cooperative when they had ego goals to fill, I’m sure, but ultimately that kind of motivation is destructive. Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Now we’re paying the price. When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do, it’s a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory, you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That’s never the way.” -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

because it’s sooo not me. :)

Children really do brighten daily life. Their innate curiosity and mischief, as well as the miracles of their rapidly developing psyches, should be an inspiration to all of us “adults”!

I don’t know if I’ll ever have kids, but I think I could offer a previously unwanted child a good home. At the very least, I’ve THOUGHT a lot about what it means to be a good parent!