Staying On A Path Going Nowhere

"Most of us in the first half of life suspected that all is not fully working, and we are probably right...We do not want to embark on a further down journey if it feels like going down, especially after we have put so much sound and fury into going up.... The supposed achievements of the first half of life have to fall apart and show themselves to be wanting in some way, or we will not move further. Why would we?.... Scott Peck's major insight is his best selling book, 'The Road Less Traveled'. He told me personally ones that he felt most western people were just spiritually lazy. And when we are lazy, we stay on the path we are already on, even if it is going nowhere.".
(Richard Rohr. Falling Upward)