Everybody is brought up as a child. That is your
first way into the world; that’s how you have been trained for years, to remain
a child. Everything was ordered and you
were expected to obey. You have become
very dependent – you always go on looking for father figures, you always go on
looking for authorities to tell you what should be done, what should not be
done.
Maturity
means the understanding to decide for oneself, the understanding to be decisive
on your own. To stand on your own feet –
that’s what maturity is. But it rarely
happens because parents spoil almost every child, more or less. And then there is the school and the college
and the university – they are all ready to spoil you. It is very rare that somebody becomes mature.
The
society is not happy with mature people.
Mature people are dangerous people because a mature person lives
according to his own being. He goes on
doing his own thing - he does not bother about what people say, what their
opinion is. He does not hanker for
respectability, for prestige; he does not bother about honor. He lives his own life – he lives it at any
cost. He is ready to sacrifice
everything, but he is never ready to sacrifice his freedom. Society is afraid of these people; society
wants everyone between seven and fourteen – and that’s where people are.
In the
First World War, for the first time psychologists became aware of this strange
phenomenon. For the first time on a
large scale, in the army, people’s mental ages were researched. And it was a strange discovery: the people in
the army had an average mental age of twelve.
Your body may be fifty, your mind remains somewhere below fourteen.
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