We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother's milk for a baby.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.

Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time.

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent.

Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will.