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“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”

Mind Mean Self Reason Use Form Individual Higher Discipline Fit Conscience Concerned Absence Rational Self Respect Phases Degrade Unfree

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.”

Source: A Woman's Worth

“Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!”

Long Reality Spirituality Voice Cry Danger Higher Discipline Training Eternity Difficulty Come Up Gods Will Urges Midst Invites Strife Invaluable Semblance

Author:William James

“The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.”

“Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.”

Ifs Self States Spiritual Goal Results Greater Higher Discipline Standing Self Discipline

Author:Ming-Dao Deng

“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.”

World Way Want Firsts Looks Ideas Faces Language Loses Secret Higher Discipline Exercise Letting Go Flow Impulse Aspiration Messengers Losing Yourself Carrier

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.”

Force Higher Discipline Contact Submit

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.”

Mean Use Form Higher Discipline Concerned Absence Rational

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.”

Want Inspirational Self Spiritual Father Goal Destiny Masters Higher Discipline Worthy Happy Setting Settings Heavenly New Year Self Discipline Want U Heavenly Father Higher Ground

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.”

Needs Might Spiritual Enjoy Quality Learning Higher Discipline Occasions Fortunate Tunes Fasting Less Fortunate

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.”

States Spiritual Social Religious Results Evolution Higher Discipline Civilization Excellent Lowest Brutes Social Status Pariahs Britons

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.”

Ifs Men Body Values Courses Animal Produce Personality Higher Discipline Capable Relation Scales Backgrounds Excellent Urges Faculty Progressive Display Appreciated Physical Body

Author:J. C. Kumarappa