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There can be no physical education without discipline. The body
itself could not function without a strict discipline. Actually,
the failure to recognise this fact is the principal cause of illness.
Digestion, growth, blood-circulation, everything, everything
is a discipline. Thought, movement, gestures, everything is a
discipline, and if there is no discipline people immediately fall
ill.
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True wisdom is to take pleasure in everything one does and
that is possible if one takes everything one does as a way to
progress. Perfection is difficult to attain and there is always a
great deal of progress to be made in order to achieve it.
To seek pleasure is certainly the best way to make yourself mis-
erable.
If you truly want peace and happiness, your constant pre-
occupation should be:
“What progress must I make to be able to know and serve
the Divine?”
Show this to C. She ought not to have listened to what the
children say. She has been here a long time. She ought to know
that.
That [“To seek pleasure is certainly the best way to make
yourself miserable”] is an absolute truth. It affirms that if you
want to satisfy your little ego, you are sure to be unhappy.
CWM 12: 382-83

Without outer and inner discipline, one can achieve nothing
in life, either spiritually or materially. All those who have been
able to create something beautiful or useful have always been
persons who have known how to discipline themselves.
CWM 16: 124 The Mother

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