"Spiritual discipline means "bringing about a change in oneself not in the environment.  Changing the external world to suit one's desires is the way of worldly men;
that is like carpeting the whole earth to avoid being hurt by thorns."  a quote from Murti in The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton


Let me not look to "carpet the world."

I pray for discipline, spiritual and earthly.

I pray for you, for your soul, for your heavenly being

to live a life I can not know or understand.

I pray for your heart and soul to be with  my heart and soul eternally.