The Importance of Discipline

Before we can make deep changes in our lives, we have to look into our diet. The way you feel when you wake up early in the morning and your mind is fresh and as yet unsoiled by the noise of the outside world are worth protecting. Walker Percy, one of the last great southern novelists, has a powerful passage in Lancelot based on his own struggle with ion illness and addiction to entertainment. In the book, the Harriet narrator walks outside of his Mississippi mansion and simply stops. He steps outside his bubble and experiences the moment. It is in this stillness that we can be present and finally see truth like they did to chattering broadcasts.