“We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.”
“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”
“For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.”
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
“As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.”
“The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become”