![]() ![]() ![]() “The author explores the contours of a restless mind racked with fear and doubt and questions the origins of his personal disenchantment and cynical bitterness. Therefore I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment and only so can we know peace.” I believe that through discipline we can learn to preserve what is essential to our happiness in more and more adverse circumstances, and to abandon with simplicity what would else have seemed to us indispensable that we come a little to see the world without the gross distortion of personal desire, and in seeing it so, accept more easily our earthly privation and its earthly horror-But because I believe that the reward of discipline is greater than its immediate objective, I would not have you think that discipline without objective is possible: in its nature discipline involves the subjection of the soul to some perhaps minor end and that end must be real, if the discipline is not to be factitious. I believe that through discipline, though not through discipline alone, we can achieve serenity, and a certain small but precious measure of freedom from the accidents of incarnation, and charity, and that detachment which preserves the world which it renounces. This very great disparity suggests that the fact that discipline is good for the soul is more fundamental than any of the grounds given for its goodness. ![]() I think that one can give only a metaphysical ground for this evaluation but the variety of metaphysics which gave an answer to your question has been very great, the metaphysics themselves very disparate: the bhagavad gita, Ecclesiastes, the Stoa, the beginning of the Laws, Hugo of St Victor, St Thomas, John of the Cross, Spinoza. What you say is true: I do value it-and I think that you do too-more than for its earthly fruit, proficiency. Live in serenity and joy (Serenity Quotes) Do your work, then step back.“You put a hard question on the virtue of discipline. (Nervous breakdowns, to be sure, but not serenity) It's as simple as that (Serenity Quotes) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is (Serenity Quotes) The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back (Serenity Quotes) I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos (Serenity Quotes) Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven (Serenity Quotes) Drink deeply. not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace (Serenity Quotes) Sidetracked women, who scatter their energies to the four winds, never achieve serenity. Text Quotes Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace (Serenity Quotes) When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace (Serenity Quotes) Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance (Serenity Quotes) You create your own calm (Serenity Quotes) When we put our problems in God's hands, He puts peace in our hearts (Serenity Quotes) Peace comes from within (Serenity Quotes) When looking for the path to peace one comes to realize that peace is the path (Serenity Quotes) It's all about finding calm in the chaos (Serenity Quotes) I really love peace and quiet (Serenity Quotes) The quieter you become, the more you can hear (Serenity Quotes) Silence is golden (Serenity Quotes) The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books (Serenity Quotes) There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind (Serenity Quotes) Forgive. ![]()
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