My God, how childish can people get? And they don’t know their childishness. They’ve got to blame somebody. But, no. Maturity is understanding that no one is to blame. Or better still, and more accurately put, maturity is not giving yourself the childish emotional outlet of blaming others or yourself but, rather, seeing what went wrong and setting

Maturity is when you no longer blame anyone. You don’t blame others, you don’t blame yourself. You see what’s wrong, and you set about remedying it. That’s one pretty good sign of maturity.

If we don’t know how to handle emotional states with equanimity, integrity and clarity, we never fully enter adulthood, but remain at some level children.