To know and love yourself and speak your truth despite all else is a journey and strength on its own. It is a hard journey, a journey that requires and builds bravery, but one that is necessary on the path of aligning with your purpose and on that of enlightenment.

Often people speak of mental and physical discipline. Discipline when it comes to working out, work, focus, eating and spending, etc.

Rarely do we talk about emotional, spiritual and moral discipline. Yet it's time for the conversation to go there, for this discipline is needed to guide us within long enough to discover ourselves without the interference of others, the distractions, or the programming of the external.

This discipline is needed when society, peers, or any majority pull us on a path away from ourselves, empathy or morals.

This discipline is needed when all of these vital things are attacked.

When one has gained the emotional, spiritual and moral discipline that they need to re-meet their true self, and to express and protect their true self, they become aligned on their true path.

There is no greater self-love, and no better thing one can do. To know yourself and love yourself and speak your truth is to love others, and then like a single candle in a dark room, it has the contagious impact of shining light on everything around it, so that others will subconsciously be pulled to do the same. Person by person, societies and communities, families and friend groups heal until the room is bright with light.