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Time or age is not an indication of maturity. Context: K: What do you think maturity is? Does it depend on age, time? Q: No. K: So we can remove that. Time or age is not an indication of maturity. Then there is the maturity of the very learned man, the man who is highly, intellectually capable. Q: No, he may twist and turn the words. K: So, we will eliminate that. Whom would you consider a mature, ripe person? Q: The one who is able to observe. K: Wait. Obviously, the one who goes to churches, temples or mosques is out; so is the intellectual, the religious and the emotional. We should say, if we eliminate all that, maturity consists in being not self-centred – not me first and everybody else second, or my emotions first. So maturity implies the absence of the ‘me’. Krishnamurti, The Awakening of Intelligence