The Long Ride Home Quotes

“Hunting and deforestation is making many species extinct. It’s the cutting down of the rainforests that’s threatening the planet’s wildlife and cutting off our oxygen.”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life

“Because happiness, real happiness, is a scary prospect. As Kristin would say in her self-compassion workshops: ‘We tend to stick with the devil we know, because it’s comfortable, familiar. It usually takes some outside force to kick us into finally choosing happiness. Plus, let’s face it, it’s more work to get out of your comfort zone, even though that comfort zone may be actively harming you, than it is to climb out of that hole to a better place. No wonder we resist for a time. It’s all just part of being human.”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life

“To know, to be told, what I think every human being knows deep in their heart: that the secret of life, of happiness, is only this – we are here simply to love and be loved, and, if possible, to help to build collective dreams of love. That love is all that matters.”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life

“Whether we turn out to be the Dalai Lama or Adolf Hitler, we are loved and are put here only to love. If we stay with love, we will be happy and fulfilled because we are fulfilling the divine purpose. If we stray to hatred and to harming others, we will destroy our own happiness. But either way we are loved, and when we die, we simply return to the source, to the same place we came from when we were born. Birth and death are the same – an entrance and an exit from the source and back again.”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life

“The world, the universe, life as you know it, is all just a big experiment in love. Like a beehive. You humans are like worker drones. Your job is simply to make the hive get bigger. For this to happen, all you are required to do is to love actively. And, if possible, help to build collective dreams of love. If you do that, you are fulfilling my purpose. That is all I ask. All you need for your happiness. All you are here to achieve. Whatever else you do is up to you. All I require of you is to love. It is that simple.”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life

“there can be no real separation between a parent and a child: one love, one heart, always and for ever.”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life

“Slowly, I put my hand on my heart, breathed. I felt the shift almost immediately: the good feeling as oxytocin gradually replaced cortisol, the stress hormone that had been flooding my body, making me want to lash out, flee, dive down a hole. It’s okay. I started to say the words Kristin had taught me, a technique she had used during her training workshops and which had proved so effective that universities around the world now recognized it.”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life

“Why did I find it so hard to do – ego, pride, some strange deep-seated embarrassment?”
― Rupert Isaacson, The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life