maturity

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.

Childishness and childlikeness are two very different things. To know a childlike person, is to know a very mature person; to know a childish person, is to know a very immature person. To know childlikeness is to know original wisdom; to know childishness is to know original error. And there are many children more mature than adults, many adults less mature than children.

Cockiness _ the state subjective or intuitive state of self-assurance _ is a sign of ignorance. Maturity comes with encountering the horrible and learning about what a person can withstand.

Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity,Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom.

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

Yep, I was so mature, I decided I would just have to reward myself by doing the naked lambada with a Federal Agent.

For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hunger; especially is this the case with well-brought-up girls, who have been taught that they could not possibly like to kiss a man unless they loved him.

Fair and unfair are for children

I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bears no resemblance to cancer or AIDS because, as the work not of nature but of man, it is an almost voluntary death. How can it be that such a death fails to dumbfound us, to turn our lives upside down, to incite us to vast reforms? No, it does not dumbfound us, because like Pasenow, we have a poor sense of the real, and in the sur-real sphere of symbols, this death in the guise of a handsome car actually represents life; this smiling death is con-fused with modernity, freedom, adventure, just as Elisabeth was con-fused with the Virgin. This death of a man condemned to capital punishment, though infinitely rarer, much more readily draws our attention, rouses passions: confounded with the image of the executioner, it has a symbolic voltage that is far stronger, far darker and more repellent. Et cetera.Man is a child wandering lost__o cite Baudelaire`s poem again__n the "forests of symbols."(The criterion of maturity: the ability to resist symbols. But mankind grows younger all the time.)

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.

To share our independence, to me, is synonym with __aturity_. Maturity means the combination of courage__o do something__nd consideration__o stop doing that when it__ required. Kind of like the gas and brake in a vehicle.__o depend on Love isn__ the same as to depend on a single person to feel that connection towards Love. The more Love that flows through any given relationship, the more love that can flow towards other relationships, in contrast, a lack of Love in a relationship calls us to look out for anything else that could make us feel connected, feel accepted.__ost people aren__ ready for the kind of commitment and dedication required to __erge_ in someone else while retaining their individuality, and after a very short time, they feel suffocated and abandon such relationship.__n order to identify when we are receiving this energy from a particular__imited__ndividual, or when it is coming from Source, the Love that flows from Source is unlimited and increases constantly, whilst the other one needs constant recharge to continue to function. It__ as clear as the difference between sunlight and a torchlight.

It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal

You can__ just be. You have to become.

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.