Dear Parents: Listen to Your Teen's Unheard Cry for True Love, Meaning & Success

By Dr. Malick Kouyate

This book is written for parents who are willing to help their teens to:
*love all those who love them
*forgive all those who hurt them
*be peaceful culture consumers
*re-align their learning to their true calling
*treasure their priceless inner treasure
*sing out loud and share constructively their lifelong most favorite love song.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490735641

Dr. Malick Kouyate

Dr. Malick Kouyate is an educational scholar, a philosopher, and a poet. He believes that there is a place deep within and all around us all as a whole where we each and all are meant to meet and meltdown and be One with one another without losing our Personal Identity. That place is the very place of true Love and long-lasting Peace, and Intimacy with each other in marriage.

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YOUR TEEN’S UNHEARD CRY

Dear parents,

Listen to my too loud but too often unheard cry

For in-depth social integration,

For in-depth self-discovery, for independence

For self-control, for self-navigation,

For a more meaningful and successful life

In a more meaningful and peaceful world.

Dear parents,

Read my eyes and listen to my heart,

Look for any of the so many signs

From any of my so many silent sighs,

Sense and make sense of the large gap

Between who I am and who I am meant to be

Between my learning and my true calling

Between what I have to do and what I am called to do.

Dear parents, teens’ unheard cry for true love,

For true meaning, for peace of mind, for true success

Is timeless and spaceless and boundless.

Teens’ unheard cry for a more meaningful life

In a more meaningful and peaceful world

Is universal and yet intimately personal.

Dear parents,

Listen to the ineffable melody of the music in me.

Deep in the subtlest strings of my innermost being,

There is a whole learning world, a learning world

Often misused and abused by the outside world.

Dear parents, deep down in me,

There is a priceless treasure that is in no other,

There is a lifelong most favorite love song

That has never been sung before,

There is a small and still powerful voice

Crying out loud to be heard all around.

Dear parents, to educate me for excellence is to help me:

Re-align my learning to my true calling,

Awaken the positive side of the sleeping giant in me,

Treasure the priceless treasure in me that is in no other,

Sing out loud my lifelong most favorite love song,

Step outside my limited and limiting self

To be a blessing to someone else, to everyone else,

Starting by the very innocent child in me.

On My Own Words

My Smoothest Road

Love, true love, is my smoothest road

To holistic healing,

To wholeness, to meaning,

To peace with my own self,

To peace with everyone else.

Love, true love, is my smoothest road

To the best there is still in all there has been,

To the best there is in all there is here and now,

To the best there will be in all there is about to be.

True love is my smoothest road

To the words of the unheard,

To the voice of the voiceless,

To the sight of the blind,

To the teaching of the teacher

To the preaching of the preacher

To the poem of the poet

To the wisdom of the wise

To the smile of the innocent child

To the stillness of the dawn

To the freshness of the dew

To the ineffable melody of the music all around me

To the mystery of life that does not mystify.

To educate me for excellence is to help me learn from the best there is:

* in me

* in everyone I meet

* in the world all around me.

When we are unaware of our subjectivity . . . our dreams, the needs of our heart, soul and spirit, we depart from the truth of life.

(Kierkegaard, theologian)

The darker the mask between me and the true me, the deeper the wound I inflict to anyone close to me including the innocent child in me.

EDUCATION

To educate me for excellence

Is to help me:

See in me more than eye can see,

Share my shared values,

Adopt solid world views,

Follow consistent ways of life,

Love all those who love me,

Love all those who hate me,

Forgive all those who hurt me.

To educate me for excellence

Is to help me:

Strive for the knowledge and skills

Congruent to my innate talent,

Lean on, learn from, build upon

The magic of congruency

Between my learning and my calling,

Learn more actively

Learn more meaningfully

Learn more mindfully

Be a peaceful culture consumer

Be a mindful culture producer.

On My Own Words

A Child Is A Love Letter

A child is a lover letter

Written by a whole family

At the service

Of the whole community.

Every step I take,

Every move I make,

Every action I undertake,

I must do so

With my whole family

With my whole community

In my heart, in my mind,

In my soul, in my spirit . . .

To educate me for excellence is to help me be able to:

* strive for in-depth social integration

* enjoy my first deepest educational need for belonging

* accept, respect, enjoy, share and celebrate my cultural identity.

Whatever is social is individual and whatever is individual is social.

(Merleau Ponty, philosopher)

Education is the most powerful weapon . . . you can use to change the world . . . A good head and a good heart are always formidable combination.

(Nelson Mandela, politician)

EXCELLENCE

Excellence

In my education is:

An ever increasing,

A never ending

Striving

For oneness:

Oneness

With my deepest and highest self,

Oneness

With everyone’s deepest and highest self,

Oneness

With what I am called to know,

Oneness

With what I am called to do,

Oneness

With the larger than life in me,

Oneness

With the larger than life all around me.

On My Own Words

My Heart Purity

To educate me for excellence

Is to help me:

Lean on, learn from, build upon:

The positive side of the world inside

The positive side of the world outside

The positive side of everyday life.

The world is as it is,

The world is as I see it.

My heart purity is the lens through which I see:

The best there is in my internal learning world

The best there is in my external learning world

The best there is between my two learning worlds.

My lifelong longing for true love,

My lifelong longing for true meaning,

My lifelong longing for peace of mind,

My lifelong longing for true success,

My lifelong longing for true happiness

Will all be a mere elusive mirage

As long as my inner world is still:

Polluted by any meanness and madness,

Poisoned by any envy and jealousy,

Clouded by any inner emptiness and bitterness,

Grayed by any frustration and stress

Bed ridden by any soullessness and powerlessness.

To educate me for excellence is to help me be able to:

* lean on my heart purity

* learn from my heart purity

* build upon my heart purity.

The purer my heart purity, the more genuine my spirituality.

MY BEST ROAD

Excellence

In my education is:

My smoothest road

My straightest road

My fastest road

My best road

To holistic healing

To wholeness

To more active learning

To more meaningful learning

To more mindful learning.

Excellence

In my education is:

My smoothest road

My straightest road

My fastest road

My best road

To a more meaningful life

To a more peaceful