Our access to emotional maturity changes as we do, responding at different points to our environment, our hormonal state, whether we’re hungry or tired. The goal is to empower yourself with the ability to make the best decision for your emotional state as the world shifts and changes around you. Emotional maturity is not a goal to check off a list, like reaching the next level in a video game (now you’re a fully realized human, you win!). It’s not a magical state. The underlying message is not one of a state of enlightened beingness—it’s one of work and self-forgiveness that will ultimately
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