Spiritual Maturity, To Be Truly An Adult - A Quotation by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Spiritual maturity - to be truly an adult "Childhood and maturity are two periods through which human beings are obliged to pass. We are a child for a time, and then we become an adult. That is true, not only in society, but also in our spiritual life. The only difference is that most people do not reach spiritual maturity at the accepted legal age of eighteen or twenty-one. Many people, even at ninety-nine, are not really adult, because they totally lack spiritual maturity. Only those who have received the Holy Spirit can be considered true adults; the others are still just children. Yes, heaven looks on us as minors until we gain spiritual maturity, and we must maintain a childlike attitude, that is to say, always obedient, humble and submissive to the divine world. Every human being who is caught up in inextricable problems is still a recalcitrant child. True adults do not suffer, because they are always in the light." Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericist. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov, the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.