The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. Quotes II

-We are so very much more, from our chidren's wondrous arrival into our lives to their rounds of questioning and development, when we pay attention and we reflect, we can see great things through their spiritual lens.
-What is this parenting journey is actually the ultimate spiritual journey.
-We are also aware of the psychological toll on kids who are over-scheduled and under chronic pressure to perform, and we want to preserve childhood as a joyful, explorative and carefree time.
-Spirituality is an inner sense of relationship to a higher power that is loving and guiding.
-Spiritual development is the growth and progression of our inborn spirituality.
-The way in which a parent supports a child's spiritual development has a great deal to do with how a child grows into that rich spiritual potential.
-People with a developed spirituality gets sick less, are happier, and feel more connected and less isolated.
-The brains of spiritually engaged people when simply resting with closed eyes is the same wavelength as that of a monk during mediation.
-Spiritual individuation has a paradox. It is grueling, yet eminently satisfying, uplifting, and mind-opening.
-An adolescent with a strong personal with the higher power.
-Authentic spirituality requires reflection and the development of a road back to transcendence through the cultivation of our inner life, through prayer, meditation or perhaps good works, intertwined with our general capacities of cognition, morality, and emotion.
-You are never mistaken for supporting a child's spiritual self.
-The difficult lies not in solving problems but in expressing them.
-All she had to do to support his daughter was to pay attention.
-The precious opportunity before you is that you child is giving you an opening and saying: Hey, come with me. You don't need to know where you are going, or how you are going to get there, you are simply asked to go with her. Our children look to us, but not really for the answers. We're being asked to show up. We need to show up, but we don't need to have all the answers.