-The value of a human life. Not just anyone's: your human life. The purpose of your whole being. Your value. And the point of the entire world around you. This is the core work of spiritual individuation, the quest.
-Depression opens a path for spiritual growth that, if taken, can lead to a deeply cultivated, lasting personal spirituality.
-Through spiritual engagement they actively shaped their sensitive brains in a way that was neuro-protective against recurrence of major depression.
-Neurologically, psychologically, and spiritually, spirituality and depression appear as two sides of the same coin.
-The more the teen has set up the personal transcendent relationship, the more resilient, emotionally and physically, they are likely to be when they confront illness, loss, and bereavement, all the things that eventually come our way in life.
-A preoccupation with personal control in the face of unwanted life events that are not controllable leads to recurrence of depression, anxiety, stress disorders, and addictive consumption of food, alcohol, and tobacco.
-Strong personal spirituality builds greater grit and optimism in the face of adversity.
-How can you be depressed when you got everything you wanted? If spiritual individuation and the normal quest for meaning, purpose, and transcendent connection is unmet, the core is not built.
-The spiritual connection through his family, the field of love, is what lifted his depression.
-Religious practice and nonreligious mindfulness practice both contributed equally in different ways to teens' spiritual development.
-Religious practice plus mindfulness add up to more spiritual awareness and engagement. Mindful teens and religiously observant teens both were equally spiritual, equally connected with the transcendent relationship, felt a sense of spiritual discovery, and felt daily spiritual experience.
-"My dad died years ago, but I still talk to him sometimes when I'm feeling down or I don't know what to do".
-The teen must connect head and heart knowing in order for their spiritual and analytical faculties to inform one another.
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