The Honor of Truth & Place
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Discipline & Respect
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Beauty is the meaning of life
expressed through your creativity.
Your meaning is your pathway in life.
Look for humor,
for there you will find your arrogance
and the start of your sanctuary. 
Look for the paradox,
for there in is the truth
of your honorable presence.
Look for change,
for it's a chance to grow
and find true direction.
Discipline

Abundance distracts.
Enough opens time to play.
Discipline seems unworkable
without a road map to abundance.

Too much erodes our existence.
The body becomes bloated,
the mind floats into numbness,
the spirit is lost.

To find discipline,
become a disciple of your own truth.
Realizing what you really want to do,
discipline becomes release, not restraint. 

The truth of action is in being.
The truth of refinement of mind,
the truth of reemergence of spirit
maps your path to living.
Discipline has a bad reputation. It is seen as forcing yourself to do something. To force yourself implies resistance. An aspect of you doesn’t really want to do it. You are in conflict with yourself. 
Discipline is intention, attention, and focus on manifesting what already exists inside of you. Discipline is more a process of revealing what is already there, unveiling it to the light of your existence. What is inside of you is the truth of who you are at your core, your inner Essence. If you let this drive you towards what you want to do in life, you find that discipline, in the old sense, is not required. You are unforced and released to fly in your natural direction. 
With the reemergence of your inner Essence, the truth of who you are, you start to refine its expression by refining your mind, your thoughts. From this comes daily actions that spring from your true Being. 
From the forcing of discipline, you change to being the disciple of your own inner truth. You move from being made to do something, to being released to naturally do what you know is right and good. 
Without force, without discipline, you create a map of where you will live. A farmer is not forced to go into the field to gather in his crop. He readily harvests the abundance that is there.
Respect

Respect is a point of view, the point of self.
Regard another in the mirror.
Reflections of self hate violate us all,
bringing us self destruction.

Hate of self is disregard for us all. 
Respect is knowing our connection
and building Place on that connection.
Love of all springs from love of self.

Reverence of self defines that of others.
Value of self catalyzes that of others.
Devaluing another echos self loathing.
We all sink from one breach.

Respect proclaims the truth,
that we all derive from the source,
divine in our eternal connection,
reflections of only one truth. 
A common statement is “I get no respect”. The answer to that is – this is because you give none to others or to yourself. Just as you cannot love others until you love yourself, you cannot respect others until you respect yourself.
Self hate is a cancer that threatens our true self and separates us from the true inner beauty of others. Self hate can be subtle or blatant. It is self punishment for an imagined transgression of the soul. Self hate is a fantasy that we are worthless, flawed and hopeless. 
From early years we are taught that this is true. But this lie only feeds the needs of others. How often in classrooms or at our workplace are we chastised for our belief that we hold potential, hope and value that rises above the lowest common denominator? 
We must find the strength to hold the reverence for ourselves that others deny in themselves. Our showing ultimate respect for ourselves will be the catalyst for others finding it. 
Respect simply acknowledges the truth. To know that you are pure, perfect, love and life is to acknowledge the source we all spring from. That source is our divine connection, one to all. 
We already have respect for truth. But if we are all, in our core Essence, just reflections of only one truth, how can we not experience and express respect for ourselves and others?