Sometimes you get stretched.
But, most of the time, it has to be your choice (willingness) to stretch yourself.
Unfortunately, too often it seems, only the first sentence is what actually happens. And, perhaps, that is largely symptomatic of much of our society with our experience of things—ideas, people, etc—that are different from our own experience.
You have to cross the line into otherness, away from pulling on sameness.
-- Richard Rohr
