ANCIENT MUSIC IN THE PINES - EP#2

Maturity is a deep trust in your own consciousness; immaturity is a distrust in your own consciousness. When you distrust your consciousness you trust your knowledge, but that is a substitute and a very poor substitute at that. Try to understand this  --  it is important. You have been living, you have experienced many things; you have read, you have listened, you have thought. Now all those conclusions are there. When a certain situation arises. you can function in two ways. You can function through all the accumulated past, according to it  --  that's what I mean by functioning through a center. through conclusions, through experience, stale, dead  --  then whatsoever you do your response is not going to be a response, it will be a reaction. And to be reactionary is to be immature. Or, if you can function right now, here in this moment, through your consciousness, through your being aware, putting aside all that you have known  --  this is what I call functioning through no-knowledge, this is functioning through innocence. And this is maturity.