Travelling Without Maps

The lack of discipline is fine if you are content to drift along in the stream that carries you through life. Everyone around the world is taught to trust to a great extent in our cultures to care for us once we have learned the relatively habitual norms that they expect of us. But this ease is paid for at a price because these ways of seeing purposefully exclude other dimensions of the life which cannot be considered unless we make set aside the normal half-tide ways of seeing things and apply ourselves to discover them. This break is costly. It involves certain sacrifices. And it will be initially disorientating because the old signposts will not hold true to now show you the way. In fact, these new ways are without signposts. Discipline's purpose in the spiritual life is not to provide us with maps, but to sharpen our sense of direction so that we become able to travel without maps.