Question

Once we have found the habit of looking within, listening to ourselves and responding to our

own impulses and feelings, we shall not let ourselves be so easily the victims of uncontrollable

emotions and affects; the inner life, instead of being either a gaping void or a ghoulish

nightmare, will be open to cultivation and in both personal conduct and in art will bring us into

more fruitful and loving relations with other men, whose hidden depths will flow, through the

symbols of arts, into our own. At this we can nourish life again more intensely from the outside

too, opening our minds to every touch and sight and sound, instead of anaesthetizing ourselves

continually to much that goes on around us, because it has become so meaningless, so unrelated

to our inner needs. With such self discipline, we shall, in time, control the tempo and rhythm of

our days; control the quantity of stimuli that impinge on us; control our attention, so that the

things we do shall reflect our purposes and values, as human being, not the extraneous purposes

and values of the machine. Our smallest negotiations and inhibition will help to give back the

initiative to the human spirit and in time we shall be able to make more positive choices; not

merely rejecting vigour all the significant goods of our age, because even when these goods

come to us only with the aid of the machine, they will be ours to command, ours to reflect upon

and to enjoy.

In what sense is the word 'self discipline' used in the passage and what is 'the initiative of

human spirit'?​

Answer 1

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