In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
Science and religion will meet and shake hands.
Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.