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Vsuresh Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

life's longing for itself

Please tell me the meaning.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
  

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Without any further context, I take the underlying idea to be this. Children are the result of the human race's biological urge to perpetuate itself by reproducing. Clive

  • Without any further context, I take the underlying idea to be this.
  • Children are the result of the human race's biological urge to perpetuate itself by reproducing.
  • Clive
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Without any further context, I take the underlying idea to be this.

Children are the result of the human race's biological urge to perpetuate itself by reproducing.

Clive
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Thank you, Clive.
This is kahlil Gibran's thought.
He starts this by saying "your children are not your children: they are born through you and not from you."
The line you have interpreted follows this.

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