Love and discipline birth devotion

Devotion is the masculine and feminine principles in action.

In the masculine, it is discipline. Maintaining boundaries around time and energy.

In the feminine, nurture. Expressing, creativity, intuition, and the life-giving waters of love.

If there is only discipline you will accomplish something you don’t want to nurture; because discipline without nurture is tyranny.

If there is only nurture and no discipline you will eventually lose what you love; because nurture without discipline breeds weakness.

Love is the creative flow. Discipline is the gas that keeps the flow going. Discipline is the counterbalance to love. When there is both, you will have a devotion. Devotion bears long-lasting and sustaining fruit.

Emotional engagement turns routines into soul-filling rituals. Beauty can spring from the mundane when you ride the ebbs and flows. Move through your day fully connected with what is tasked of you, and you will indeed create magic.

Care for yourself as though your life is precious, because it is. Proceed as though you are necessary, because you are.