the doubt which keeps alive the dialectical values, and therefore protects a culture from reification and stagnation, also serves to enliven the per- sonality and stimulate it to evolve
certainty is the enemy of truth … concepts, whether dogmas or operative beliefs, are husks which once held the energy but which can also serve as a prison. … The toxicity of such imprisonment is an omnipresent reality for both society and the individual. … doubt, theologian Paul Tillich argued, is the necessary ingredient in any respectful encounter with ultimacy … is a form of humility before the largeness of the mystery. It is a form of honesty. It is a manifestation of how seriously one in fact takes one’s journey, an expression of how deeply one cares