[D]ie reifen Menschen:
Sie behaupten ihre Stellung ohne Mühe.
Verwirklichen ihre Lehre ohne Worte.
Sind ein Teil von allen Dingen und übersehen keines.
Sie erzeugen, ohne jedoch zu besitzen.
Sie handeln ohne Erwartung.
Sie vollbringen ohne Anspruch auf Verdienst.
Fürwahr, weil sie kein Verdienst beanspruchen, wächst es ihnen zu.

Laotse [BW 610] (604-531 v. Chr.) chinesischer Weiser, Philosoph, Begründer des Taoismus, Tao Te King, Vers 2, Chinesisch-English R.L. Wing, 1986; Englisch-Deutsch Peter Kobbe, 1987

Die reife Persönlichkeit setzt sich mit den Gegebenheiten der tatsächlichen Wirklichkeit auseinander, die unreife mit Konzepten und Vorstellungen über die Wirklichkeit. Ronald D. Laing (1927-1989) britisch-schottischer Psychiater

Eine Wahrheit kann erst wirken, wenn der Empfänger für sie reif ist. Nicht an den Wahrheiten liegt es daher, wenn die Menschen noch so voller Unweisheit sind. Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) deutscher Dichter, Schriftsteller, Übersetzer

Das Erwachsenwerden ist mit Recht auch als lebenslanger Trauerprozess beschrieben worden. Denn immer wieder gilt es, sich von etwas zu lösen und sich in den verschiedenen Phasen des Älterwerdens mit seiner Einsamkeit auseinanderzusetzen. Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (*1917) deutsche Psychoanalytikerin, Medizinerin, Autorin, zit. in: Hans Jürgen Schultz (Hrsg.), Einsamkeit, S. 215, Kreuz Verlag, 1980, Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart, Neuauflage, Februar 1994

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Personal avowals

And then, you know, when I hit 60, I didn't want to live laterally. I wanted to live vertically and go deep and slow down. I know it's hard for you to understand this. Before we went on air, Larry said he doesn't know how to relax, neither does Ted. But I wanted – I wanted to go deep into life. And I wanted to really – he was a man that I wanted to show up for. I had been afraid of intimacy all my life. And I worked real hard on myself to get over that, and to get over the disease to please. And I wanted to bring my whole self to the table with this man that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. And he couldn't take it. TV Interview with Jane Fonda (*1937) Academy Award-winning US American actress, political activist, philanthropist, writer, presented by presented by US TV station CNN, Larry King Live, talkshow host Larry King, 6. April 2005

Maturity entails the capacity to live with the unanswered and uncertainty and take pleasure from the fact that it is a stimulus to learning and further growth and leads to progressive discovery. The mature mind knows that it is evolving and that growth and development are satisfying and pleasurable in and of themselves. Maturity implies that one has learned how to be comfortable with uncertainty and has included it as a legitimate ingredient. Uncertainty leads to discovery, whereas skepticism is stultifying. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood, S. 74, 2005

Humor is important to the maturation process, whereby we learn how to not take ourselves so seriously and to laugh at ourselves, thus decreasing narcissistic defensiveness. To be prone to "hurt feelings" is egocentric and a form of social paranoia. When we admit our downside and learn to laugh at it, we are no longer vulnerable to slights and insults. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, S. ?, Reflection of August 9th, January 2011

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap! Abraham Lincoln [LOC 565] (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865)

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein [LoC 499] (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics

Any person who has made a deep connection to nurturing or sustaining others, any person who has been through vulnerability and suffering and has learned some wisdom from it, can embrace their later years with a depth of understanding that is of value to us all. Audio interview with Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com, US American, Jungian analyst, author, spritual teacher, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, Embracing Crone Wisdom, presented by US web radio station New Dimensions, host Michael Thoms, aired 27. August 2003

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) US American First Lady (1933-1945) supporter of her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies, advocate for civil rights

To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson (1859-1941) influential French philosopher in the first half of the 20th century, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, 1927

Women age, but men mature. Gloria Steinem (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, writer, journalist, visionary activist

As you lower your entropy in consciousness you get more power, more ability to have an effect.
Lowering entropy by improving the organization (profitability) of accumulated experiences increases the energy / power / information available to the evolving entity.
Lowering entropy, spiritual growth, increasing the quality of consciousness, evolving one's consciousness, and growing up are all different expressions for the same thing. Video presentation by Thomas Campbell (*1944) US American physicist, consciousness researcher, sponsored by and at London School of Economics, Physics, Metaphysics & the Consciousness Connection, part 9 of 18, YouTube film, minute 0:05, 9:00 minutes duration, filmed 22. February 2008, posted 13. April 2008

Love is defined as the fundamental state of a low entropy consciousness. It is not that a low entropy consciousness is loving. A low low entropy consciousness fundamentally is love. Video presentation by Thomas Campbell (*1944) US American physicist, consciousness researcher, sponsored by and at London School of Economics, Physics, Metaphysics & the Consciousness Connection, part 9 of 18, YouTube film, minute 0:22, 9:00 minutes duration, filmed 22. February 2008, posted 13. April 2008

Mankind will reach maturity on the day it learns to value diversity. Gene Roddenberry [Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry] (1921-1991) US American television screenwriter, producer, futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. Joshua Loth Liebman (1907-1948) US American rabbi, author

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. William Arthur Ward (1921-994) US American writer

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. Wilhelm Stekel (1868-1940) Austrian physician, psychologist

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity. Tobias Wolff (*1945) US American author, novelist

Youth condemns; maturity condones. Amy Lowell (1874-1925) US American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry laureate, 1926

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. Brigitte Bardot (*1934) French former fashion model, actress singer, animal rights activist, bestknown sex-symbol of the 1960s

Maturity implies otherness. [...] The art of living is the art of living with. Julius Gordon, US American rabbi

Write bad things that are done to you in the sand, but write good things that are done to you on a piece of marble. Arabic proverb

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Different forms of love

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German US Amercian social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher

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Wikipedia entries Maturity

Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D., US American organizational behaviorist, writer, lecturer on Positive Psychology in Harvard University, IDC, Herzliya, Israel, Psychological Maturity

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Audio- und Videolinks

Video interview with James Hollis Ph.D., US American Jungian psycho-analyst, on Finding Your Own Path, presented by LIVING SMART #202, host Patricia Gras, YouTube film, issued 2006, 26:48 minutes duration, posted 16. March 2010

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