Raising Children In God's Will (176) Chapter 3. Children's Growth And Guiding Section 3. How to Raise Children 2) Guiding the Children
③ Subjecting Them to Hardships - 1
There is an old Korean saying, "Whip the ones you love and feed the ones you hate." Do you understand what it means? It makes perfect sense.
Why? In order to maintain the correct tradition...one must become tear-soaked in love expressed through the parental whip. I can understand that, do you? (95-81)
Everybody, did sweetness come out of bitterness? Or, bitterness out of sweetness? Which came first? [Bitterness] (Laughter) Of course.
The rules of life dictate that. Now, did light come out of darkness, or darkness out of light? [Light out of darkness] (laughter) Yes, of course.
So, if you accept bitterness there is an abundance of sweetness that comes out of it. Those who accept any amount of bitterness can create any amount of sweetness.
Now, love is good, love is sweet, love is bitter, which is it? "Sweet." That's for the Westerners. For the Asians, it's bitter (laughter).
That's right. So that the Asians understand true sweetness. But, if you know only sweetness, you don't know what to do with bitterness.
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