> As children we are meant to go further than our parents. But the risk is always that we judge them by what we know, forgetting that any advantage we think we have is an outgrowth from the foundation they have set. > > Resenting them for their shortcomings alienates us from this foundation we have been given. Resentment towards them keeps us unrooted as we deny their living influence within us. Honouring parents despite everything keeps us in touch with the mission of our lineage. > > It helps us to see more clearly how our advantage as children can elevate their influence within us. Honouring them means honouring ourselves. Being gentle with them means being gentle with their living influence within us. > > Any advantage, emotional, mental or spiritual is a responsibility for elevating them, not a case to accuse them. Because we too will be similarly evaluated by our children. So forgive your parents. > > —[@mikael_jibril](https://twitter.com/mikael_jibril/status/1650693699330883586) ___ This is most potent at the object level, so no need to depart from it. Still, I feel compelled to speak to one rung up on the [[ladder of abstraction]], generalizing "parents": Look at any habits of resentment or opposition you may be maintaining against an aspect of your past or origins, and reclaim that energy for the sake of wholeness. The flows that comprise you do not stop with you; in clarifying your relationship to that which came before, you also refine your capacity to offer to all those following and yet to come.