“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The greatest kind of painting includes both the intuitions and the intellect, but in your terms this also requires the maturing of the high intellect. [...]

An early acceptance would have tempted you to rely upon the facility before the inner spontaneity even began to grow to maturity. [...]

Most individuals after death choose a more mature image that usually corresponds to the peak physical abilities, regardless of the age when the physical peak was reached. [...]

I am in somewhat the same position when I try to explain to you the nature of this inner self, for while you can become aware of it in dreams, you cannot truly appreciate its maturity or abilities; yet they are yours in the same way that the man’s abilities belonged to the child. [...]

Physical feedback is of course necessary for development, and a child deprived of it will not fully mature. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It is not a point of how much better it would be had the abilities matured earlier. [...]

Maturity has nothing to do with the meaning of the reptiles and mammals mentioned as dream images. [...] The reptilian images do not represent maturity nor immaturity, but are simply designations natural to a particular level of cellular consciousness.

Many believe that it is a time of spiritual and/or physical deterioration, an era in which all those hard-won attributes of maturity vanish, and the reasoning faculties disappear like grains of sand held too long by the thinking hands of the mind.

[...] Some artists with great ability may shut out intellectual maturity, utilizing native emotional qualities to such an extent and with such intensity that the mental reasoning faculties are largely shunted aside. [...]

[...] When they reached that level of development, however, they were spiritually and psychically mature, and were able to utilize energies of which you now have no practical knowledge.

[...] The personality will try to develop its abilities further in a freer, more mature fashion, but the old habits will hold the personality back. [...]

[...] It has grown and matured. [...]

[...] There will be time needed if his abilities are to mature. [...]

[...] If he had set out, and he didn’t, to plan a process that would enable him to use his abilities to the fullest in his writing and other fields in which he is interested, and yet to discipline himself so that he did not scatter his abilities, if he had set out on a plan toward maturity, and to set definite controls upon his sometimes too fast, out-of-proportion responses, he could not have found a better path than the one which he is now following.

(Long pause.) Ruburt broke through both psychically and creatively—that is, the sessions almost immediately provided him with new creative inspiration and expression and with the expansions needed psychologically that would help fulfill his promise as a writer and as a mature personality. [...]

As he matures and learns, and studies and works, he will then be able to do this when he wishes to do so. [...]

[...] In the larger scheme of reality, this provided a framework for individuals to taste infancy or childhood without growing to maturity. [...]

[...] You can say “Why did my artistic talent not mature when I was young?” Yet the dimensions of personality are such that basically the question is shallow. [...]

[...] When you were doing commercial art you were utilizing some important aspects of creativity, though you were not matured enough to use them except in limited form.

[...] This is also caused by your camouflage system in which physical materializations appear and grow, mature and disappear.