-What makes us spiritual is our awareness that our lives, our relationships, and the natural world both seen and unseen are filled with an ultimate presence.
-Is it the case that good guys tend to be spiritual? Yes.
-People with greater hunger and pursuit of spiritual transcendence were viewed by other people as more self-actualized, emotionally balanced, and delighted in living.
-From early adolescence to emerging adulthood, we live through the most intense surge into spiritual arrival.
-How can we help support and encourage natural spirituality?
-Spiritual development foundational to adolescent development, and if it is not supported, we often see other failed attempts to achieve direction, connection, and a sense of transcendence and inner peace, through substance abuse, risk taking, and casual sex.
-With spiritual growth also come the positive psychology assets shown to accompany spirituality: thriving, optimism, grit, and the relational assets of forgiveness, intimacy, and commitment.
-Another way to conceptualize this idea is to imagine a view high above ourselves and our situation, looking down and through and in; this view from the mountaintop is the view by the higher self, or observing eye.
-When we meditate, we feel less revved up for fight or flight.
-We can see the broad and pervasive positive effects of seeing life from the seat of the higher self, which is filled with the clarity, perspective, and wisdom of the knower.
-A state of craving in our inner life means we never feel satisfied.
-When participants shift their mind to the transcendent relationship, there is a cessation of blood flow in the region of the brain associated with craving.
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