I remember an old pupil of mine who was in quite a high position in an insurance company. He was known for being very conservative, very, very staid, very conventional. I was giving him a lesson one day and he said, “You know, a groove is a very comfortable thing.” And he was expressing, quite obviously, a deep feeling that he was having. He realized that in the work I was doing I was trying to winkle him out of his groove, and he didn’t want to be winkled out of that. He wanted to be able to pursue his course of life as before. He didn’t want to change.
Walter Carrington (“Thinking Aloud” – Change Without Changing p145)