“This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.”
“If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.There’s nothing I can keep with me that will stay.I must always re-establish ties.I must tread carefulle or give myself away.I must survive.I must keep moving, but I don’t know why.”
“A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.”
“When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.”
“It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”
“It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)”