Raising Children In God's Will (119) Chapter 2. Children's Love and Parents' Love Section 4. Love of Parents
4) Parents' Love is Perpendicular - 1
Parents' love is perpendicular. Love only crosses the shortest distance. So, the perpendicular line where we can meet God is far, but this is a parallel line. This line I'm talking about, this line from parents loving children must be parallel. If this goes wrong, everything breaks up.
Yes, even the Universe cannot obstruct parents' love. That is why the same thing can be said with the way of dutiful son and the way of dutiful retainer. A dutiful retainer walks on a parallel line centering on the perpendicular, although the position is different. Do you understand? (186-36)
When you see the relationship of a man and a woman as horizontal, the relationship of a father and son is perpendicular, on the perpendicular line. So that is why, in the far eastern thought, they say the father-son relationship never changes.
That relationship is forever, but the object relationship with your mother, that can change. It changes according to the perpendicular, if the perpendicular becomes east-west, this relationship with you mother becomes south-north.
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