The Rule of Life Is a Mean to an End

A rule of life is just like all of the practices or spiritual disciplines. All of them are a means to an end, and you don't even have to do it if you don't want to become loving and joyful and peaceful. Richard Foster in his famous book, The Celebration and Discipline, was written about 45 minutes from here down by George Fox. He separated the classical list of the spiritual disciplines into two categories: abstinence and engagement.