The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
-- William Blake
We seek the answer. Sometimes we think we have found a central truth and later learn that beneath it is another truth. Or what seemed so crucial as a guiding principle for our lives last year is still true but not as crucial. It is like trying to take a snapshot of a changing world while the camera itself is changing.
Some of us in our hunger for security grab for "absolute" truths, which are not absolute. We must continue forever to be eager learners. In stepping across a stream from one floating log to another, we must resist the temptation to become overcommitted to staying in an especially secure looking place, or we will never reach the opposite shore when limited to being narrow minded. With an open mind, and not having a 'set in our ways' attitude, it is a thought process that works because it takes us out of our rigid ways. We are continually made new. That is the vitality of the spiritual life.
Come fly with me !!!!!
