-For an adolescent, when transcendence is not guided to connect with the rest of lived experience, the teen loses hold of the innate capacity for spiritual awareness.
-The world is different without the knowing of the heart, without the sense of being part of something greater and good, without the added glow of family or the field of love, or without the intuitive awareness of the wisdom in nature and all living beings.
-What can we do? We can parent our adolescents for spiritual individuation, with a strength and presence that ultimately outweighs the surrounding culture.
-The mark of outward success: very little concern with goodness or morality in family goals and time together, inner life or reflection, morality or spiritual values.
-The cost of severed spirits: physical appearance was the most powerful factor for predicting a girl's popularity, with a girl's hostility or mean girl factor being the second greatest predictor of popularity. For teen boys, substance use was the greatest predictor of popularity, followed by their exploitive attitude or behavior toward women.
-Feeding a child on raw outward ambition, without unconditional love, does not make for success in any way.
-Spiritual individuation will set up the teen for a much healthier, more meaningful, purposeful, and thriving adult life. Lacking spiritual resources, teens search for the transcendent experience wherever they can find it: risky behaviors, including reckless driving or casual or unprotected sex, and substance use.
-The stronger the teen's transcendent relationship, the less likely she was to use drugs.
-Adolescence brings with it and erupting hunger for transcendence.
-Positive psychology grow out of transcendent values, a spiritual worldview and sense that our direction and relationships have ultimate value.
-Choice by choice, big and little, the new map takes shape and with it comes an emerging concept of identity based upon a deeper spiritual worldview. Who am I? What do I want my life to be? What is my purpose?
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