Narrowing? Or Expanding?

Sometimes I think of discipline as narrowing—getting back between the lines, so to speak. I associate the word with constricting.

But in a meditation with friends, this concept completely changed. I had a dream about a house where I was staying. My room was in the front of the house. When I decided to explore, I found room after room after room. This house was huge! Every room was furnished, but not with more than was needed.

In the meditation, which we worded as “We discard toxicity and choose what is good, truthful, and pure,” what came to me was this scripture: “In my father’s house are many mansions.”

Now I think of discipline as expanding. How do you think of discipline?