<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460446" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0016 Fathers, Sons, and Families</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and next to the world of heavenly gods, <br>the world of ancestors…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when ageing Indian fathers heard the call<br>that spoke some other world, they called their son<br>and put to him three propositions, to which<br>he might then make three promises: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You are all things - you are God in everything ' –<br>this the first, to call the open mind<br>to gain the widest knowledge of all things; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You are sacrifice, surrender – you are universal law, <br>tradition, responsibility…’: this the second; then</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You are the world – you are humanity itself—<br>find this and live by it..’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the father’s mind now freed; and for the son, <br>continuity; and constancy; the good passed on; <br>all that fathers seek, for family and son; <br>and so the family lives on, in sweet redemption<br>of its generations, in its hopes, and in its love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, I like to think, poets speak for them today<br>in rituals of poetry; holding in cupped hands<br>against the cold night winds of chance and change<br>the lights that pass from hand to hand, <br>from mouth to mouth, from ear to ear, <br>saying, remember, you are all things<br>in all your shining consciousness; <br>you speak of all good things and pass them on<br>in all your glorious languages; <br>you are the world, yourself, <br>you are humanity</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460446" data-title="0016 Fathers, Sons, and Families de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and next to the world of heavenly gods, the world of ancestors… when ageing Indian fathers heard the call that spoke some other world, they called their son and put to him three propositions, to which he might then make three promises: ‘Yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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