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Like it or not, sooner or later, kicking and screaming or with dignity and grace, each of us enters those years in the middle of life when we are expected to be grown up, responsible, even act as adults. What an odd sounding word, mature. Despite the negative connotation attached to the word by many, particularly those on the cusp of forty, mature rolls off the tongue easily, full of richness and texture. And that’s about as good a definition as any. Maturity signifies the richness and texture of life, human existence at its zenith of complexity and fullness, pulsating with pleasure, pain, and possibilities.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1. Fulfillment Through Maturity
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (New York-American Heritage Publishing Co., 1969), p. 807.
Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society, 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 1963), p. 124.
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Colarusso, C.A. (1994). Fulfillment through Maturity. In: Fulfillment in Adulthood. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6509-7_1
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