On Avoiding Effort
"If your expectations are those of someone content to live without physical challenge, when mental or emotional challenge comes, you fail to meet it."
On Looking Like a Fool
"You have to look like a fool while you're looking for answers you don't have."
On Being 'Normal'
"To be 'normal' is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful. For people of more than average ability, normal signifies deadly boredom."
On Cultivating Self-Discipline Like a Plant
"Virtue is not a mushroom that springeth up in one night, but a delicate plant needing much pains to cultivate, much time to mature."
On Things You Can't Rush
"The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
On Enlightenment
"Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water."
On the Value of Difficulty
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."
How did this week's discipline theme land for you? Which day's reading challenged you most?