If you allow the wind of doubt or the sun of despair to affect the pot of Ananda (bliss) that you have filled in your heart, it will evaporate quickly. But if you keep the pot in the cool waters of good company and good deeds, it can be preserved undiminished for ever. Ananda also grows when you dwell on it in silence and recapitulate the circumstances which yielded it. That is why Manana (rumination) is held so important a part of spiritual effort.

- BABA