Many years ago, when, for the first time, I met great yogi masters, I had the opportunity of being introduced to a striking quality that, now I see it, I certainly had not known.
There was wisdom, but there was something else.
The most knowledgeable the individual, the more humble he was. However, there was more.
Yes, in every one of them I recognized inner peace, and this was the seed, however there was more.
There was also pleasure shown in the subtle contentment of each of those individuals, however there was something that was what aroused my curiosity: how could they be so similar at the level of values and qualities, and yet be so different among themselves?
The answer came but a few years later: what characterized each one of them and set them apart and maintained them like a fortress of enthusiasm had a name: maturity.
Maturity is not a result of theories or intellectualism. Maturity does not arrive either with time or with a large reservoir of information.
Maturity results from the most attractive and at the same time most challenging exercise, the exercise of free will.
Maturity comes when a choice is made; when a path is chosen. Here is a subtle and powerful secret: maturity is born when we start to listen to our intuition. It is then that gestation starts.
While we try to keep “control” of our lives and of situations, we are only listening to reason, and this will be a sterile field for maturity to come alive.
In the extent that we start to intuit and take attitudes based on intuition, we start to lose the false sense of security and our lives start to flow, like the waters of a river in directions and courses that we may not know, but that we tread with pleasure and contentment. The feelings of freedom, challenge, renovation of old ideas and discovery of the sacred value in the most simple moment are part of maturing.
For this, it is necessary to open the dams of the heart. A small opening will not suffice.
The flow of divine and true love will overflow the banks and limits of a limited intellect and will flow in feelings that will be translated into natural compassion, inner happiness. Then, maturity will present itself… in choices, in decisions, in seeing beyond what is apparent and obvious.
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Author: Herbert Santos
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