doubt protects mystery from stagnation

• 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
• individuation comes from the little people