Discipline

You can evaluate the discipline based nature of any practice. To what degree does the practice or training require special behaviours from the person pursuing it? We are all disciplined people. You have never met an undisciplined person. Their discipline was just different than yours. So with all these disciplined people around, how are we doing?

Be yourself more clearly. It’s the effort to see the self that distorts the self, like trying to look at the back of your own head. But the glass house has a foundation, and house plants as well, features of the living world beyond, little indicators that at least in small moments you can be present. You can take a breather even if it fogs up the glass. Get really good at finding those living connections, finding the air vents and openings, and it will definitely fog up the glass, not only for you but others as well. You will be doing everyone a favour.

“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.” Clint Eastwood