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Self-Discipline

One must gain mastery over self the person who is not master of himself can never be master of others. Lack of self-mastery is, of itself, the most destructive form of indefiniteness.

By mastering the three appetites responsible for most of one's lack of self discipline. The three appetites are (1) The desire for food, (2) The desire for expression of sex, (3) The desire to express loosely organized opinions.
When a man becomes master of these three appetites, he has developed enough self-discipline to conquer easily those of lesser importance.

Self mastery contempates sufficient control over the appetites to enable one to feed them what they need and withhold food not needed.

Take the desire for physical food, for example. The majority of people are so weak in self discipline they fill their stocmachs with combinations of rich food which please the taste but overwork the organs of digestion and elimination.
They pour into their stomachs both quantity and combinations of food which the body chemist can dispose of only by converting the food into deadly toxic poisons.
These poison clogs and stagnate the body sewer system until it slows down in its work of elimination of waste matter. After a while the sewer system stops working altogether, and the victim has what he calls "constipation."

Overeating and wrong food combinations are the devils which cause auto intoxication.
Says the devil: "People who eat wisely and keep their body sewers clean handicap me because a clean body sewer generally means a sound body and a brain that functions properly."

It is just important to eliminate the waste matter of the body and the unused portions of food as it is to take the right amount and the correct combinations of food.

Sex is one of the greatest of all forces which motivate human beings. Because of this fact it is also one of the most dangerous forces. If humans would control their sex desires and transmute them into a driving force with which to carry on their occupation that is, if they spent on their work one half the time they dissipate in pursuit of sex, they would never know poverty.

Sex is not under definite control. If allowed to run its natural course, sex will quickly lead one into the habit of drifting.

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