Theologian Karl Rahner once wrote, "...what is called knowledge in everyday parlance, is only a small island in a vast sea that has not been traveled... "
When one is constrained by obligations to others or to preordained schedules it is easy to imagine that we don't have the freedom or time ("free time") to pursue knowledge beyond the security of our little island of knowledge. But once freed of such excuses it is humbling to realize how often we would far rather be miserable than to change.
Liberate me from the chains of my island of routine, O Lord, and let me see the world as it is-- unfettered by my conventions and self assurances.
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I want to see what's out there.
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