Be thankful to the Lord that He gave you time, as well as action to fill it with.  He gave you food, as well as hunger to relish it.  But that does not entitle you to engage yourself in action indiscriminately.  You use the mosquito curtain to prevent mosquitoes and you also see that the mosquitoes do not imprison themselves inside the net when you go to sleep.  Similarly, select the impulses, the motives, and the incentives that enter your mind.  Keep out the demeaning, the debasing and the deleterious of them away.  Admit the highest wisdom of the scriptures, the wisdom culled out of the crucible of experience (Anbubhava jnanam).  The lotus born in the slime and mud rises up through the water and lifts its head high above the water.  It refuses to get wet, though water is the element which gives its life!  Be like the Lotus!

                                                    - Divine Discourse, January 1,1964.

"YOU are My miracle.  Be Heroes, Not Zeroes." - Baba