"The more you love your children, the more care you should take to neglect them occasionally. The web of affection can be drawn too tight."

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For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

— John of the Cross