Maturity is the growing awareness that you are neither all powerful, or helpless. It could be said to be the knowledge of what is, what might be, and what cannot be. It is not a destination: it is a road. It is the moment when you wake up after some grief or staggering blow and think, “I am going to live, after all.” It is the moment you find that something that you have long believed is not so and parting with old convictions you find that you are still you; the moment that you discover someone else can do you job as well as you – but you go on doing it anyway; the moment you do the thing you have always been afraid of; the moment that you realise you are forever alone, but so is everyone else; and the hundred moments that you see yourself as you are. It is letting life happen in its own good order and making the most of what there is. It is “Letting Go and Letting God.”
Emerging From The Dark Night 