This is from Neil:

"You can't reach out to what is in front of you until you let go of what's behind you" 

Anonymous. 

We are all a little bit like this. The familiar is comfortable and perhaps even more pleasurable than the choice(s) before you. Most of the time you cannot have both if we are speaking of spiritual progress.

Let us take our tongue which is capable of conciliatory reasoning and evil vindictive. As The Letter of James points out Chapter 3 verse 11 -- "Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?"

In the vernacular Jesus might say: "Clean up your act."