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    Growth to Maturity
    (Tangaza University College, 1997-02) Pullamkannappallil, Emmanuel
    This essay is constituted of six chapters. It is quite clear that from the introduction itself the precise goal of this essay, as to be able to live as fully and meaningful as possible. The chapter on love extensively deals with the different aspects of love. r-Try person has a natural built in tendency to move towards the direction of love. Growth in love is something like physical growth. As an infant goes through different stages of growth and achieves maturity so too a person goes through different stages of the emotional growth and becomes a perfectly matured and balanced person. The following chapter deals with the aspect of forgiveness. To put it briefly this chapter explains our deep characteristics of our Christian faith and human maturity which lie entirely on our ability to forgive unconditionally, irrespective of the painful hurt we have been subjected to. The fourth chapter is on freedom. The aim of this chapter is to make one free from all that keeps us as slaves: salves to one's own passions, addictions, inclinations, and one's own undue attachment to things and persons. This kind of freedom which one would like to pursue in one's life best explained from the lives and thoughts of people who have made themselves free to choose good and execute them in their lives. The following Jiapter is on truth.The chief aim of this chapter is to uncover the inner calling of each one to be truthful to God, to oneself and to the society at large. In this chapter on truth I have made extraneous efforts to enrich this essay drawing examples and inspirations of those who set aside their lives for truth. The concluding chapter is nothing but a synthesis of the four themes I have dealt within this essay. These four themes are judiciously selected in order to re-orientate one's entire outlook to life into one of an integrated personality.