The goal of matured being

A flower that stops short at its flowering misses its purpose. We were created for more than our own spiritual development; reproduction, not mere development, is the goal of matured being—reproduction in other lives.

Lilias Trotter, Parables of the Cross

(Note: Lilias Trotter did not have biological children of her own — that is not her meaning here, though obviously that could well be encompassed in it.)