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Speech that causes no annoyance, and which is truthful, loving and beneficial, the study and recitation of the scriptures, these are declared to be austerities of the spoken word.
XVII-15
Tranquillity of mind, gentleness, reticence; self-control, purity of thought, these constitute austerity of the mind.
XVII-16
Giving also is, according to the motive behind it, good, useless or worse. We should give gladly and not grudgingly, and in a spirit of duty and not in expectation of a returning obligation, or even to gain the merit of alms giving.
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