03.13.08

You are a Marvel (Pablo Casals)

Posted in Unauthored by Me at 7:27 am by Miracle ♪♫

The monumental cellist Pablo Casals scribed the following lines.  It genuinely moved the teacher in me, the fellow human in me, and the perhaps future parent in me (Hehe… I even wanna have it printed out and hung just above the piano that I use for teaching). I hope it will inspire and touch you in the same manner.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe,
a moment that will never be again…
And what do we teach our children?
We teach them that two and two make four,
and that Paris is the capital of France.
When will we also teach them what they are?
We should say to each of them:
Do you know what you are?
You are a marvel.
You are unique.
In all the years that have passed,
there has never been another child like you.
Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers,
the way you move.
You may become a Shakespeare,
a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven.
You have the capacity for anything.
Yes, you are a marvel.

And when you grow up,
can you then harm another
who is, like you, a marvel?
You must work -
we must all work
to make the world
worthy of its children.

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