“Some mountains will offer you beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Those are the rewards of engaging in the hiking process.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“When a child believes there is something wrong with them due to criticism, expectations, or judgements, they turn against themselves and experience the ultimate separation.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Regardless of what else he is, he is still a child, as they all are. And don't all children deserve to be protected? To be loved and nurtured so that they may grow and shape the world to make it a better place? . . .”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“And even the smallest of us can reach the stars - so why is it that once we’ve grown up we can't even see the sky?”
“Most parents thought they were being good parents. They learned from their parents or their grandparents, many of whom were severely traumatized and emotionally disconnected coming out of the devastation of a 1918 influenza pandemic and two world wars.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“If you think it should have been so easy for your parents to have met your needs, then meet your own needs and create the life of your dreams. Do what they could not. Be the change you desired throughout your life.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Most expectations of children are unrealistic and ridiculous. Children are just learning how to ‘be’ in this world. To expect them to know what to do, or to expect them do things in a specific way, is a type of insane cruelty inflicted upon the child. Permit children to make mistakes and to explore life without criticism.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“In some respects, generations revolting against their parents result in resemblance to their grandparents.”
“There was something he liked and hated about seeing John Everly sitting just that way; something to always like and hate about seeing himself in his children. Please be like me. Please don't be like me. He couldn't figure it.”
Source: Children of Promise
“In Veksh," said Trishka, "our mothers teach us that there's a type of story called zejhasa, the braided path: a new tale that starts before the old tale has ended, and which could not exist alone. Every life is zejhasa. Before we are born, our mothers live their own stories, and when we are young, our existence is twined with theirs - small threads in a wider pattern. But as we grow, these threads begin to separate, forming new strands, new lives, new purposes. Our mothers' stories go on, enriched; but ours will always begin before theirs have ended.”
Source: An Accident of Stars