Love and Friendship

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
~Bruce Lee

Spiritual Maturity

"A growing surrender to the unknown is a sign of spiritual maturity and encourages us to give up illusions of immortality we still might have and to experience in a new way our total dependence on God's love, a dependence that does not take away our free selfhood but purifies and ennobles it...those who have learned through living that there is nothing and nobody in this life to cling to, are the really creative people.   The are free to move constantly away from the familiar, safe places and can keep moving forward to new, unexplored areas of life."  Inayat Khan

Authenticity

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens.  A terrible thing; no one to blame."  Erica Jong

Crone

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force." Dorthy Sayers

Mind

"The mature mind is one who can remain without any search even if there is no ultimate explanation of things."  Osho

Maturity

"This is what maturity is: to accept the fact and not create a fiction around it; to accept the reality as it is, without trying to sweeten it, decorate it, without trying to make it more acceptable to your heart."   Osho