Quotes about Maturation

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

In all of life, there are sequential stages of growth and development. A child learns to turn over, to sit up, to crawl, and then to walk and run. Each step is important and each one takes time. No step can be skipped.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.

I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.

The second journey begins when we know we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the morning program.

We walk through life as if we had swallowed an Easter candle, rigid and tense, always afraid that things will get out of hand. This reaction is just as harmful as open rebellion, or even more so, because it blocks our way to religious maturation.

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.