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Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
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Kemi Sogunle
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I believe that no matter what situation in life you find yourself, there is room for you to take control of little things, which ultimately adds up to big things.
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Lisa J. Shultz (Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.)
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Rudyard Kipling, in his famous poetic description of what makes for mature and effective adulthood, wrote in part: If you can keep your head When all about you Are losing theirs And blaming it on you... If you can trust yourself When all men doubt you... This famous 1909 poem “If” was inspired in Kipling after observing one military leader’s actions during the Boer Wars (Lt. Colonel Eduardo Jany, personal communication, October, 2007).
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Michael J. Asken (Warrior Mindset: Mental Toughness Skills for a Nation's Peacekeepers)
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The different faces of all people on earth show that all people on earth have different hearts, mindset and understanding. He who understands people well understands the true meaning of maturity and knows how to act well towards people with a good understanding!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Toxic In The Mind: daily use of the mind that kills you slowly)
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People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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The business leaders must work with the right mindset to create an inclusive organization with every dip in the business lifecycle.
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Pearl Zhu (Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight)
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It is your state of mind or your ability to think that will exalt or diminish you. The choice is placed in your hands.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
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Sometimes all you have to do is feel, flow and free your heart for unlimited flight.
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Pradip Bendkule
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Crying is sympathy; Hiding tears is maturity.
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Wrushank Sorte
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Maturity should become our daily practices and never to allow any immature thought to penetrate through the mind without our knowledge of its presence.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo (Destiny of Liberty)
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Start building a 'you' that your village, and more importantly you can be proud of. A you that can take on anything.
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Jakob Saeli (Future Titans)
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Unfortunately, in the empath community, creating boundaries is often approached with a fearful mindset instead of the desire to become fully mature and individuated beings. This fearful mindset often gives rise to terms such as “protection,” “cloaking,” “shielding,” and so forth. Instead of using empowering terms, we empaths tend to use phrases that suggest minimizing or hiding away from others instead of stepping into our natural power.
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Aletheia Luna (Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing)
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Children should be taught to learn from failure and to correct it in the future. Do not judge or punish. That will not help your child mature or to learn how to think. Like Marva Collins, tell your children the truth. Give them the tools to solve problems.
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2 Minute Insight (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success…In 15 Minutes – The Optimist’s Summary of Carol Dweck’s Best Selling Book)
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you could approach each situation thinking, “there is something here for me to learn from.” This is an extremely valuable mindset if you want to emotionally mature. It brings a lens of critical reflection to all your interactions, combined with empathy for others.
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Charlotte Maloney (Emotional Maturity: Discover How to Control Your Emotions and Be More Mature (The Secrets of Emotional Maturity))
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A sure sign of maturity is being able to accept people for who they are. You stop agonizing over changing those who don’t want to change. Because the truth is, little victories aside, that’s a superpower you don’t have. What you can do is decide what role you will allow them to play in your life. Then …you live with it.
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Nina Guilbeau
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Only a few of us retain a childlike wonder throughout our lives. A typical life’s journey is one with increasing knowledge but decreasing mental and physical adaptability. Our mindset unknowingly gets trapped in conceptions and categories that we create. As Aristotle observed, as we grow older, we aspire to nothing great and exalted and crave the mere necessities and comforts of existence. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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Ted Chu (Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution)
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a good set of questions to determine whether a project leader—or even an individual contributor—has an agile mindset might be, "In what specific ways and with what practices do you focus on value first and constraints last?" "In what specific ways and with what practices do you manage teams rather than tasks?" "In what specific ways and with what practices do you adapt to change rather than conform to plans?" Try these out in your organization to get a feel for your agile maturity.
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Jim Highsmith (Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products)
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To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism. It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment—that mature style of viewing which is a prime acquisition of "the modern," and a prerequisite for demanding traditional forms of party-based politics that offer real disagreement and debate. It assumes that everyone is a spectator. It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world. But it is absurd to identify the world with those zones in the well-off countries where people have the dubious privilege of being spectators, or of declining to be spectators, of other people's pain, just as it is absurd to generalize about the ability to respond to the sufferings of others on the basis of the mind-set of those consumers of news who know nothing at first hand about war and massive injustice and terror. There are hundreds of millions of television watchers who are far from inured to what they see on television. They do not have the luxury of patronizing reality.
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Susan Sontag (Regarding the Pain of Others)
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42. Your process of thinking should change as you get older. If it doesn’t, then you haven’t grown up. If you still have the same mindset and perception of life that you had 10 plus years ago, then you are still a child. And this is the problem with many black communities today; we are grown up children, still looking, talking, and acting like we did when we were kids. Back in the day, you could tell a man from a boy or a woman from a girl by the way he/she dressed and talked. But today, you have to see someone drivers license in order to tell their age. This is a sign that we as a people are still stuck in our youth. And until our way of thinking matures, our circumstances will remain the same.
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Maurice W. Lindsay (Wake Up To Your True Identity: 144 Empowering Proverbs For People of The African Diaspora)
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I Am My Teacher (Sonnet 1234)
I teach myself when I need to learn something,
I correct myself when I make mistakes.
No two year old shaped as 40, 50, 60 or 70,
Has the maturity to provide me moral guidance.
I taught myself electronics when I fell for it,
I taught myself music in my youthful high.
I taught myself languages in sheer obsession,
I taught myself aeronautics when I wanted to fly.
Critics mail, I should add "biggest ego" to my bio,
I thank them all for an astounding revelation.
If I actually behaved befitting my capacity,
Half your legends will lose their reputation.
You only see the tip of the ice-berg,
Fullness of the Himalayas you'll never see.
I chose to put many of my passions aside,
One path, one mission - one answer to calamity.
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Abhijit Naskar (Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect)
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Fostering the belief that there are superior levels of revelation can create harmful mindsets. Those who have never seen an open-eyed vision may think they are somehow inferior to others who receive the “higher level revelation”, or conversely, they might feel superior to others if they experience the “higher levels”. God does not have superior or inferior children so let’s embrace His unconditional love and walk in humility before Him and each other. No type of revelation is better than another - they are simply different. The types of revelation you receive, say nothing about you as a person. They say nothing about your character and they are not indicators of maturity or superiority. The revelations you receive simply say you have a loving Heavenly Father, who gives good gifts to His children.
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Lyn Packer (Visions, Visitations and the Voice of God: Prophetic Activations to Develop Your Ability to See and Hear in the Spirit)
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CIOs today need to be the digital masters, because there is now a greater need for a CIO to equip with the digital mindset, ride learning curves, and lead changes seamlessly.
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Pearl Zhu (Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight)
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To overcome digital stagnation, empower your change agents who present game-changing mindsets and well-rounded changeability.
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Pearl Zhu (Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight)
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Advanced mindset, differentiated competencies, and superior culture are all success factors in building an ultra-modern digital organization.
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Pearl Zhu (Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight)
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Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit,” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.
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Pearl Zhu (Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity (Digital Masters Book 5))
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Eliminating lying, dishonesty, injustice, corruption, distinction, partiality, inequality, and conspiracies is the biggest and most peaceful revolution, and it depends on your mindset and maturity of discipline and tenacity.
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Ehsan Sehgal
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If someone slaps you, be matured enough to learn whether it's love or hate, and that maturity shall make you a champion.
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P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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we must prune ourselves of dead mindsets, relationships, and environments to greater align ourselves with peace so that we can intentionally and unapologetically bloom boldly into our authentic selves, lessons, and maturity.
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Morgan Richard Olivier (The Tears That Taught Me)
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You are going to make lots of decisions but not all of them will work out as expected. Don’t beat yourself too hard because of the mistakes you make; they will bring out the immaturity in you quickly. What matures us is the frequent corrections of the mistakes that we make.
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KWABENA OBENG DARKO (PERSPECTIVE: HOW TO DEVELOP THE MINDSET TO START AND BUILD YOUR BUSINESS)
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THE PRAISED GENERATION HITS THE WORKFORCE Are we going to have a problem finding leaders in the future? You can’t pick up a magazine or turn on the radio without hearing about the problem of praise in the workplace. We could have seen it coming. We’ve talked about all the well-meaning parents who’ve tried to boost their children’s self-esteem by telling them how smart and talented they are. And we’ve talked about all the negative effects of this kind of praise. Well, these children of praise have now entered the workforce, and sure enough, many can’t function without getting a sticker for their every move. Instead of yearly bonuses, some companies are giving quarterly or even monthly bonuses. Instead of employee of the month, it’s the employee of the day. Companies are calling in consultants to teach them how best to lavish rewards on this overpraised generation. We now have a workforce full of people who need constant reassurance and can’t take criticism. Not a recipe for success in business, where taking on challenges, showing persistence, and admitting and correcting mistakes are essential. Why are businesses perpetuating the problem? Why are they continuing the same misguided practices of the overpraising parents, and paying money to consultants to show them how to do it? Maybe we need to step back from this problem and take another perspective. If the wrong kinds of praise lead kids down the path of entitlement, dependence, and fragility, maybe the right kinds of praise can lead them down the path of hard work and greater hardiness. We have shown in our research that with the right kinds of feedback even adults can be motivated to choose challenging tasks and confront their mistakes. What would this feedback look or sound like in the workplace? Instead of just giving employees an award for the smartest idea or praise for a brilliant performance, they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism. Maybe it could be praise for not needing constant praise! Through a skewed sense of how to love their children, many parents in the ’90s (and, unfortunately, many parents of the ’00s) abdicated their responsibility. Although corporations are not usually in the business of picking up where parents left off, they may need to this time. If businesses don’t play a role in developing a more mature and growth-minded workforce, where will the leaders of the future come from?
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)
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An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.
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Pearl Zhu (Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future (Digital Master Book 8))
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I contend that a univariate mindset has caused ecologists and others studying natural systems to develop and cling to simplistic theories that fail to mature.
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James B. Grace (Structural Equation Modeling and Natural Systems)
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People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle. The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.
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Pearl Zhu (Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity (Digital Masters Book 5))
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The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.
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Pearl Zhu (CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It (Digital Master Book 2))
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Level Up
Focus on your growth
Walk away from toxicity
Prioritise your well-being
Don’t take anyone’s bullshit
Surround yourself with good energy
Choose healing and be proud of your scars
Tell “them” EYO! Educate your Opinion
Don’t apologise for your boundaries
You don’t have to justify your “No”
Build up your inner strengths
Take time to be silly and laugh
Provide yourself happiness
Create opportunities
Make “it” happen
Nurture yourself
Level up!
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Mystqx Skye (EYO! Educate Your Opinion)
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On being Single.
How many times have we heard people asking “So why are you single?” “Oh no! What happened!?” I haven’t heard anyone ask “So why are you in a relationship? Oh no what happened?!” As if being in a relationship is a standard of happiness or the only way to be “in” and being single is a “curse” of some sort.
Now let’s change the narrative. Maybe this “single” person chose not to carry the emotional baggage and shit of other people. Maybe she was able to finally gather her courage and leave the demon in hell. OR… maybe that person is just really happy on her own, has a good relationship with herself and provides her own happiness. Many a partner isn’t a necessity for her but just an option. Maybe she feels COMPLETE just by being with herself. Maybe she is her own HERO and rather than be stoned — her strength and independence should be CELEBRATED.
May we learn to upgrade our mindset, transform our mental landscape and overcome limiting beliefs. EYO! (Educate Your Opinion) and peace!
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Mystqx Skye (EYO! Educate Your Opinion)
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Nothing in the world, I said, absolutely nothing, can give you a sense of purpose, a vocation, or an objective. That is something transcendent in its immanence. The clues are out there, in your life: what makes your heart tremble, what makes your throat dry, what gets you out of bed every day. Like a detective, you will need to gather all these signs, these pieces, and assemble your own puzzle. This doesn't happen in a day; sometimes it takes a lifetime. Sometimes, it takes many lives within one. You will need to search, talk to yourself, reflect, converse with others, with more mature and wiser people, create your own philosophy – and it never ends. Life doesn't end, that's the beauty and the strangest part of existence. We are never ready, never complete. The aspiration to be complete is a novice’s mindset. All those who have ever aspired to eternity, and despaired, eventually understood this. Just like the man who, reading Shelley’s verses and contemplating the statue of Ozymandias and its desolation, grasped what I’m talking about. Life justifies itself.
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Geverson Ampolini
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we will examine the tensions between the execution mindset required to exercise leadership within a mature ecosystem and the alignment mindset required to establish leadership in an emerging ecosystem. Understanding how to manage the fit between these mindsets and your position in the ecosystem cycle matters regardless of whether your purpose is selecting leaders, working under leaders, or developing yourself as a leader.
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Ron Adner (Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World (Management on the Cutting Edge))
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Learning the mechanism of healing and realizing the role of contrast and diversity within and around us will give us the push we need to partake in healing. The obstacles we may encounter and the inevitable mistakes naturally serve as precious components of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual maturity.
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Youheum Son (Heal Your Living : The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness)
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Those who continue to pretend they had no choice, they are simply saying that they are still mentally immature to make their own decisions in life.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
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Maturity is difficult to define, though we instinctively recognize it when we encounter it embodied in another. It is best understood as a constellation of many traits, behaviors, actions, and mindsets which move an individual from the inward-focused egocentricity of childhood to the outward-directed stance of adulthood — from dependence to independence, incompetence to efficacy, bewilderment to wisdom.
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Brett McKay (The 33 Marks of Maturity)
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~Misinterpreting intentions can lead to missed opportunities for meaningful connections. Avoid primitive thinking. Seeing every gesture as a hidden agenda is a disservice to both ourselves and others. Let's evolve beyond primitive thinking and embrace a more inclusive mindset. It really pains me when I go an extra mile trying to secure opportunities & connections that might favor you and actually benefit you, for your own good. However, some of you still possess outdated beliefs, wrongly associating any friendly message with ulterior sexual motives. It's time to shed these misconceptions and elevate your level of intellectual maturity.
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CARSON ANEKEYA
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You can want whatever you want until the mind forbids it. As the mind adapts to maturity, mind will shift from wants to needs.
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Sithi Fathima
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Don’t play the percentages game with your spouse. It’s an easy way to get yourself off the hook. And once off the hook, you can’t mature spiritually. In fact, a typical result is that you feel like a victim. You get the victim mind-set.
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Emerson Eggerichs (Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs)
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The habits conducive to free inquiry don't just happen with age and maturity. They take root slowly. And uncertainties, multiple viewpoints, the use of independent judgment, and pleasure in imaginative play aren't luxuries to be grafted on to the mind-set of a mature scholar, suited only to the gifted few, or offered after school on a voluntary basis to the children of parents inclined this way. It's my contention that these are the required habits of a sound citizenry, habits that take time and patience.
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Deborah Meier (The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem)
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Our physical bodies, minds, emotional bodies and egos can be strong or weak, flexible or rigid, agile or clumsy. When we are born, our field has certain capabilities in all four dimensions and as we live we develop or ruin those capabilities. Our goal should be to care for and develop all four to the best of our abilities. Since our world is so focused on body and mind, it is easy for us to understand the benefits of these being strong. Our academic and professional worlds revolve around these two. White collar jobs have to do with the mind and blue collar with the body. We all accept that we have emotions and ego but we do not know how to take advantage of them. A strong and mature emotional body is perfectly exemplified in the wisdom of native Americans. They keep reminding us that we belong to Earth and that if we kill all the plants and animals we will then realize that we cannot eat our money. It is a tough realization, but this is the role of a mature buddhi. Its purpose is to wake us up. We are so blinded by the day to day rat race that we do not realize what we are doing to the planet, which actually is the ultimate support to any economy. The basis of everything we enjoy in our lives comes from Earth. Man is not inventing the source materials but the way to combine them. Thinking that we can survive without Earth playing her role is foolishness. This is what our emotional bodies are here for; to remind us of the obvious our mindset is ignoring.
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Moises Aguilar (Symbols and Teachings in the Bhagavad Gita)
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When you (the mature adult) and your younger self (your fear and resistance) team up, there will be no stopping you.
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Kerri Richardson (From Clutter to Clarity: Clean Up Your Mindset to Clear Out Your Clutter)
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Maturity Means To Balance Courage And Consideration”.
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Vraja Bihari Das (Venugopal Acharya)