This is the most important realization. Our life is our treasure. Our responsibility. It is who we are. We bring ourselves forth in the manner in which we live our life. We are who we show ourselves to be in the choices we make, in the decisions we decide. We are who we are. And we need to sit with that in emptiness, stillness, silence at least once a day, and come to terms again with what that means. With what the implications of that are. And the core ingredient in a life worthy of us, in a life worth living, is our ability to take “No” for an answer. That is the essence of maturity. And that is the cornerstone of a life worth living. Throwing our life away is the Unforgivable Sin. The thing we can never atone for. Better to cast ourselves into the direction and care of our ever-present guardian and guide on this side of death than to spurn the life that is ours to live here, now and regret it for eternity. But, we have to grow up in order to do what is called for, when, where and how it is called for in each situation as it arises in being who we are asked to be.

What would you assess the Maturity Quotient to be in the world as it is? Who are the most mature people you know of? Where would you go to mingle with mature people? Where would you go to vacation among mature people? Where would you go to find mature people meeting together? How would you rate your own depth/degree of maturity? How would you go about increasing the depth/degree of your own maturity? What makes that difficult? What would make it easier?