If you seek only bodily comforts, where is the difference between men and animals? Think yourselves a little higher than that.
Do not pray for little things.
My experience comes to this, that it is rather wise to avoid all sorts of fanatical reforms. This world is slowly going on; let it go slowly. Why are you in a hurry? Sleep well and keep your nerves in good order; eat right food, and have sympathy with the world.
By degrees even physicians will find out that fanaticism is a kind of disease. I have seen plenty of it. The Lord save me from it!
In ninety cases out of a hundred, fanatics must have bad livers, or they are dyspeptics, or are in some way diseased.
You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave's work.
The calmer we are and the less disturbed our nerves, the more shall we love and the better will our work be.
First learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.
Everyone wants to command and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful Brahmacharya system of yore.