Aspirants for mental peace have to reduce the luggage they care for; the more the luggage, the greater the bother. Objective possessions and subjective desires, both are handicaps in the race for realization. A house cluttered with lumber will be dark, dusty, and with no free movement of fresh air, it will be stuffy and suffocating too. The human body, likewise, is a house; do not allow it to be cluttered with curios, trinkets, trash, and superfluous furnishings. Let the breeze of holiness blow as it wills through it; let not the darkness of blind ignorance desecrate it. Life is a bridge over the sea of change; pass over it, but do not build a house on it.

- Divine Discourse, October 12, 1969.

Happiness consists in helping others. It is brought about by giving up, not by hoarding. - Baba