growth-requires-leaving-an-old-way-of-being

# Growth requires leaving an old way of being "All growth is costly. It involves the leaving behind of an old way of being in the world" (Robert Kegan, The Evolving Self). Development is not accumulation but moulting; what must be paid is the former self's way of making meaning, which is why growth is grieved as much as celebrated, and why it is so often refused. Related: [[images-of-god-track-stages-of-development]], [[rites-of-passage-run-separation-transformation-integration]]