SThe Transition from Adolescence

An adolescent often runs away from his body and heart. He is afraid of communion, just as he is afraid of chaotic sexual urges within himself. He needs to find himself and his true identity, so that gradually, as an adult, he will be able to feel at ease again with his body and heart, and rediscover relationships of communion and compassion through acts of humility and tenderness. .

- Jean Vanier, Our Journey Home, p. 248
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