William Bridges (author) - Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (1980)

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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Bridges

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.

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