From our earliest days, all of us are set on a path towards physical growth and maturity. What is less well known is that there are forces within us that – in comparable ways – push us towards emotional growth and maturity. Throughout our lives, sometimes at considerable cost to our short term peace of mind, we’re engaged on a journey of emotional development that we should learn to understand, recognise and honour. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: https://bit.ly/2LayJ9F For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://bit.ly/2Rt3lHX Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://bit.ly/2yb8YCt 2NwneKW
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“We know well enough that we are equipped with an innate drive for physical growth; that the human animal is geared to keep developing towards its outward mature form, adding muscle and bone and fatty tissue, in a spontaneous process of development that begins in our earliest days in the womb and ends around our sixteenth year…”