Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.