Kahlil Gibran

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
(from The Prophet: Marriage)

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

From: Sand and Foam

Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet has always been a great favorite of mine too.
This is the one that has always moved me the most, or
resonated within my soul perhaps more than any of the
others, although I love them all so very much.

A woman said: "Speak to us of Children." And he said:
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.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

By the way New Haven - I like your choice of topic
very, very much. Thanks for beginning this thread!