Discipline is not about driving away the things about us that make us who we are; it is about driving away the things about us that drive us away from who we are. Whenever we try to discipline ourselves, sometimes we feel, “Am I repressing my real person? Am I losing my core identity in the rigid discipline that I am imposing on myself?” That may happen, but then that is not real discipline. Real discipline doesn’t suppress us; It actually frees us from the things that suppress us. It drives away the dirt in our heart. It drives away the impurities that are driving us away from the core of who we are: parts of God infused with divine potentials.

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02.59 Though the embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.