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International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Abstract

To build a good family requires immense personal discipline. Consider then the organization, the nation, the world. The personal and collective responsibility to initiate, develop, and sustain a way of life self-sacrificial and life-generative is daunting. Inevitably, in response to the crisis of humanity engaged in each new age, those who feel so called enter a crucible in which the paradox of the tragic and the comedic overlap, where the sacred is touched by the profane and human evil is not a separate entity but rather is found even within human good. The complexity and the initial agony of this ambiguity make fertile the ground from which rise the malaise, pessimism, and nihilistic tendencies of all societies. Again, the need for discipline presents itself, but not discipline bound to rigidity or dominance. True discipline, in the sense of servantleadership, is oriented toward freedom, wisdom, and healing. M. Scott Peck's (1978, p. 1) great foresight becomes increasingly more poignant in the contemporary age: "Life is pain. Therefore discipline is required."

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