Maturity is pure self engaged without obstacles in maximum being

Humus is soil which cannot become any more basic. The corresponding state in a human being is maturity. Like humility, maturity is basic-ness. Maturity is pure self engaged without obstacles in maximum being. It's the full blending of attributes, the full integration of energies, capacities, darkness and light, into a fully functioning whole self that has itself and its relationship to the Divine as its frame of reference in relating to reality. The mature person is symbiotic with others and within herself, and functions according to the now.

But since the word mature is a verb as well as an adjective, it is a process as well as a state of being. The human experience is both. We experience and exhibit maturity in moments, and we go through it all the time, ever more deeply, ongoing. Full maturity requires exposure to more and more aspects of the self, and the acceptance of those aspects into the fold of the whole. This process, this search, is the mythic path, the road to the god self deliberately undertaken.

In maturity, no single aspect of a person is can dominate. Fear and strength work in balance, in reference to the whole. In this state, the great creative power of the universe flows freely through a person. Whether that person is angry, sad, confused, happy, does not matter. These things are felt, expressed clearly and fully, without the snags of hesitation or embarrassment, and above all without apology. The full self is present in the mature person, with all faculties and capacities at the ready. This person is part and parcel to the creative power of the Divine, capable of and inclined toward the small, daily thoughts and actions that manifest the Divine in the world.

What is often taken for maturity is merely solidification. It is acquiescence to -- even the championing of -- the status quo. But real maturity is the ability to function in the status quo while sustaining a deep, real belief in and commitment to its undoing. Real maturity enables you to work with functional hope of success toward the unlocking of magnificence, toward the transformation of the world into that venue of human greatness it is meant to be. The mature person is receptive to the clues and promptings of the Divine in his own unfolding, and through that to the unfolding of the unfinished creation.

A mature person has come from the childlike ability to perceive the world with wonder, through the trials and rigors of the status quo, full circle to wonder again, but with knowledge of the obstacles in his mind and heart that hinder the fullness of his life. This person has undertaken the mythic path. This person remains in a state of readiness for the extraordinary, even while grappling with the monsters of the status quo. To believe yourself capable of anything requires maturity, because only with maturity can we be open to possibility in a world where possibility is the enemy.

Ever forward.

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