“Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.”
Question for Meditation: How can discipline be freeing?
Category: Discipline
“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
Question for Meditation: What act of love can you continually make?
“Behold this day, for it is yours to make.”
Question for Meditation: What will you make with this day?
“Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.”
Question for Meditation: What do you want to accomplish?
“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.”
Question for Meditation: What “play and some pure foolishness” can you partake in today?
“For the first step toward Wisdom is an earnest desire for discipline…”
Question for Meditation: Do you desire discipline?
“Failures are inseparable to a work of this kind, and necessary for our growth in holiness.”
Question for Meditation: How do you move through failure?
“If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.”
Question for Meditation: What do you have the will for?
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore, the brothers should have specified periods for manual labor as well as for prayerful reading.”
Question for Meditation: How do you order your life? How do you stick to that order?
“If you take on too much, you have taken on nothing.”
Question for Meditation: How does discipline help you discern?
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