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Without discipline no proper life is possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/organisation-and-work#p86</ref>

Without discipline you won't be able to get anywhere, without discipline you can't even live the normal life of a normal man. But instead of having the conventional discipline of ordinary societies or ordinary institutions...have the discipline you set yourselves, for the love of perfection, your own perfection, the perfection of your being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/13-june-1956#p52</ref>

When one is incapable of conforming to a discipline, one is also incapable of doing anything of lasting value in life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/general-messages-and-letters#p37</ref>

By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/renunciation#p1</ref>

Without discipline one is nothing but an animal… One begins to be a man only when one aspires to a higher and truer life and accepts a discipline of transformation. For this one must begin by mastering one’s lower nature and one’s desires. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/conduct#p82</ref>

With a single sincere heart we all will for Victory, but it is by stages that it can be achieved. A scrupulous discipline is the first step. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/replies-to-prayers-of-the-physical-education-groups#p15</ref>

...the individual's character will crystallise according to the whims of Nature and the determinisms of material and vital life, unless a higher element comes in in time, a conscious will which, refusing to allow Nature to follow her whimsical ways, will replace them by a logical and clear-sighted discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/vital-education#p6</ref>

It can be said that all discipline whatsoever, if it is followed strictly, sincerely, deliberately, is of considerable help, for it makes the earthly life reach 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/tapasya#p13</ref>

A truly harmonious personality implies a conscious arrangement of the inner individualities. This arrangement may be effected spontaneously before birth, but that is rare. The arrangement is achieved later, by means of a discipline, a proper education. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p14</ref>

Things are not so clear-cut and separate as they are in speaking; that is just why it is quite difficult to see very distinctly and clearly in oneself the different parts of the being, unless one has had a very long training and a long discipline of study and observation. There are no watertight compartments between the soul and the mind, the vital and even the physical. There is an infiltration of the soul into the mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-april-1958#p2</ref>

All living creatures, and more especially human beings, are made up of a combination of several entities that come together, interpenetrate, sometimes organising themselves and completing each other, sometimes opposing and contradicting one another...the organisation and relationship of all these entities can be altered by personal discipline and effort of will. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/foresight#p3</ref>

...one attains the true bliss...by getting rid of all desires. It is a discipline...very useful, even indispensable to practise, if one does not want to deceive oneself...at first you begin by getting rid of the major desires, those that are most obvious and trouble you so much that you cannot even have any illusions about them; then come subtler desires that take the form of things that have to be done, that are necessary, even at times of commands from within, and it requires time and much sincerity to discover and overcome them; at last it seems as if you had done away with these wretched desires in the material world, in external things, in the world of feelings, in the emotions and sentiments, in the mental world as regards ideas, and then you find them again in the spiritual world, and there they are far more dangerous, more subtle, more penetrating and much more invisible and covered by such a saintly appearance that one dare not call them desires. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-just-man#p17</ref>

The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply for ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of ten it is full of fears...To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref>

A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p12</ref>

If one takes as an absolute discipline, instead of acting or speaking (because speech is an action), instead of acting under the impulse, if one withdraws...sits down quietly, concentrates and then looks at his anger quietly, one writes it down, when one has finished writing, it is gone—in any case, most often. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p39</ref>

Without discipline no proper work is possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/organisation-and-work#p85</ref>

It is realised that work (or life either) without discipline would soon become a confusion and an anarchic failure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/practical-concerns-in-work#p7</ref>

Work is a good means of discipline, for if you want to do the work properly, you must become the work instead of being someone who works, otherwise you will never do it well. If you remain "someone who works" and, besides, if your thoughts go vagabonding, then you may be sure that if you are handling fragile things they will break, if you are cooking, you will burn something, or if you are playing a game, you will miss all the balls! It is here, in this, that work is a great discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-april-1951#p33</ref>

That is quite necessary for work; efficiency and discipline are indispensable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/practical-concerns-in-work#p10</ref>