Off Balance

In the Spirituality of Walking Msgr Charles Pope writes:

Equilibrium may have it’s place in our physical bodies but even there, we must sometimes and intentionally throw off our balance for some purpose and in order to make progress.

This reminded me of bearing's "Forget moderation" a post from over a year ago now. She wrote

We are pretty good at "moderation." What we aren't so good at is knocking ourselves off balance in the direction we want to go.

Something I've been pondering recently, so it's nice to have that connection.