Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a key, we have forgotten the importance of fallow time and winter and rests in music. We have abandoned a whole system of dealing with the neutral zone through ritual, and we have tried to deal with personal change as though it were a matter of some kind of readjustment.

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.

Faith is the soul's adventure.

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.