Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.