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Discipline

Sets the example and hopes to be followed

 

Ocimum basilicum L. (Lamiaceae [= Labiatae])

Sweet basil

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Without character, without some kind of high or strong discipline there is no enduring power of life.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 15. - Social and political thought

Discipline is indispensable to progress. It is only when one imposes a rigorous and enlightened discipline on oneself that one can be free from the discipline of others.

The supreme discipline is integral surrender to the Divine and to allow nothing else either in one's feelings or in one's activities. Nothing should ever be omitted from this surrender - that is the supreme and most rigorous discipline.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education

Any discipline that is followed rigorously, sincerely, deliberately, is a considerable help, for it enables life on earth to attain its goal more rapidly and prepares it to receive the new life. To discipline oneself is to hasten the arrival of this new life and the contact with the supramental reality.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 10. - The Thoughts and Aphorismes

No life can be successful without self-discipline.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother

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