-Individuation can progress without spiritual individuation, but it is a weakened version based too often solely on performance, accomplishment, and material success.
-The most helpful way to support an adolescent is to frame the quest as spiritual, and as an essential, core part of their emergence to adulthood.
-The adolescent brain is built for the tasks of individuation and spiritual individuation in the second decade, even more so than in adulthood, when neural networks and patterns of thought have become more deeply entrenched.
-Spiritual development is the most important work we do in the second decade.
-A spiritual core changes all else into an inspired life.
-What we see as a surly, unsettled teen is more accurately a teen on a quest to bring mind, body, and spirit into alignment, to integrate those parts of the self into a coherent whole.
-By doing good actions, they are de facto making themselves into a person who operates with spiritual values and can discover the feelings of the heart, and transcendent relationships, that come through service.
-How can there not be something else?
-The essential self-knowledge is gained through the developmental challenges and tasks of the second decade.
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