| Do I need a challenge to keep me awake? Do I need a challenge to see that I function properly? Do I need the challenge of a book, an ideal, a hero, an example, or the challenge of my wife or husband, to keep me awake? If so, it means that I’m half asleep. A challenge comes along and I have to respond to it, fully or adequately. If I don’t respond completely, all the trouble begins – the destructive conflict, contradiction, adjustment and compromise. From Small Group Discussion 7, London, 3 June 1962 Read more | 