As a boat on the water is swept away by strong wind and thrown off course, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away one’s intelligence. ~

Bhagavad Gita

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the self. ~ Bhagavad Gita

Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Bhagavad Gita

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. ~ Bhagavad Gita